11.   The loud pounding of rock music has pummeled nearly every boomer ear, sending this generation to the hearing aid store a full decade earlier than their parents.

12.   The not-so-good news is that CBS still has the oldest audience in television by almost a full decade.

13.   The odd thing is that it took three full decades for the Nomos and the Irabus and the Yoshiis to arrive.

14.   This week, the Groundlings will celebrate two full decades of saving on writing bills.

15.   A full decade of never climbing to the same heights as that first album has given Lauper a different definition of success.

16.   Gadhafi asked during a CNN interview in the ruins of his bombed-out home, left standing a full decade after the raids.

17.   NASA envisions another full decade of operation beyond that.