1.   As for the politicians, they are almost as brutal as their predecessors of an earlier age.

2.   With the need for international cooperation more urgent than ever, there were still as many frontiers as in any earlier age.

3.   Contact with books and other printed material published in an earlier age is also important.

4.   And even after this wretched week for Kobe there are people alive who in an earlier age would surely have been killed by so great an earthquake.

5.   And since the kids are exposed to a wider variety of social situations, they seem to learn more about life at an earlier age.

6.   Baby boomers children are enjoying sophisticated picture books which introduce parody, as a literary device, at an earlier age.

7.   -- Educate both girls and boys at a much earlier age about the difference between sexual intimacy and sexual harassment.

8.   A rolling back of the borders to an earlier age is both unrealistic and unhealthy.

9.   Bryan Burwell, a columnist for USA Today, fears that a lack of sophistication of some athletes who are getting these riches at an earlier age is dangerous.