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Raised largely on garden hose water and limited parental supervision, there is a generation of Americans tucked rather indifferently between baby boomers and millennials. Demographers call this cohort of 60 million born between 1965-1980, Generation X. Educators referred to millions of Gen X as latchkey kids, students returning to an empty house with a key to let themselves in. Working parents indeed mostly left us alone – afterschool, weekends, and summers – so we fended for ourselves, self-reliant, and let's be honest, kind of feral.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University said today they would not take down their tent encampment.
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Legendary Yankees radio announcer John Sterling is retiring. He was honored at a game over the weekend.
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