How the class of 2016 sees the world

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They will be more familiar with the the Jacksons than the Kennedys.
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Many of them will never have been issued a physical airplane ticket.
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They have grown up seeing U.S. diplomacy run by women.
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Thanks to heavy headphone usage this generation is more likely to suffer from hearing loss earlier than previous generations.
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Celebrities can now become “famous for being famous” rather than for having a particular talent or skill.
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To them, Arianna Huffington was never a conservative.
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DJs Skrillex, Deadmau5, and Girl Talk are to this generation what guitar-playing Keith Richards, Eddie Van Halen, and Jimmy Page were to their parents.
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During an increasingly unstable economic and political future, they are less certain that college will be a worthwhile investment.
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They’ll never know a world where genome sequencing was science fiction.
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During their lifetimes, about two-thirds of independent bookstores have been forced to shut down.
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Robert De Niro is better known as Jack Byrnes from Meet the Parents than as Vito Corelone
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Lisa Montgomery embraces her nephew Thursday after a tornado tore apart her home in Cleburne, Texas. The twister killed six people and destroyed entire swaths of the North Texas town.
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Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center Philadelphia Tuesday. His client was convicted of killing three babies in his clinic, and will serve multiple life sentences.
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A photo taken Monday captures Vice President Joe Biden's response to a Milwaukee second-grader's innovative proposal to end America's epidemic of gun violence. This guy!
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., flanked by a grouper-eyed Michele Bachmann, addresses the IRS' admission that it targeted Tea Party groups in advance of the 2012 election. In an op-ed for CNN Thursday, the Kentucky senator slammed the president for his faux outrage.
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Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill Friday. Miller testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on the extra scrutiny the agency gave conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
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Attorney General Eric Holder pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Holder is under fire, among other things, for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at the Associated Press.
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O.J. Simpson sits during an evidentiary hearing at Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison for armed robbery and kidnapping, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial.
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Major Tom to ground control: On Sunday astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded the first music video from space, a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
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When it rains it pours. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, inexplicably inspiring an #umbrellagate Twitter meme.
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A smoke plume rises high above a road block at the intersection of County A and Ross Road east of Solon Springs, Wis., Tuesday. No injuries were reported, but the the wildfire caused evacuations across northwestern Wisconsin.
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