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...research suggests that longevity hinges in part on women maintaining an optimal body mass starting in their 20s and 30s, said Qi Sun ’07, a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health...
Part of the trend toward sensibility is being driven by a shift in buyers. With home prices back to earth and federal dollars encouraging first-time owners, Generation Y is out shopping in a way it never has before. People in their 20s and early 30s aren't looking for large move-up homes, rather simple starters that put minimal space to efficient use. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...dressed. Minutes later she has purchased a Cadillac and is on her way to Boston with her two sons to rediscover love and, along the way, something of herself.It doesn’t take long for Anne Devereaux to realize that the dating landscape has changed since her 20s. Visiting a series of old flames, she finds that men who once pursued her have directed their attentions elsewhere; they’re married, interested in younger women, or even psychotic. Though her idealism wanes slightly with every bad man she encounters, she holds on to her original optimism, constantly reminding...
...have any hope that the recession will jolt Americans out of this funk? I think it's profoundly deeper than greed. I don't think it's hugely surprising that people who go into investment banking are greedy. People who went into investment banking in the '20s weren't altruistic. They wanted to get rich too. Nonetheless, their ambitions was much more tempered by the Protestant work ethic. It was more rooted in a moralistic view of the world and in community. At any investment bank, there are hundreds of people who work there who live thousands of miles from...
...along with gray matter to produce decisions. The key part of white matter is called myelin, a fatty substance that coats the individual neural strands, or axons, that make up white matter. Myelination of axons begins during childhood and is completed at the end of adolescence, around the mid-20s. Myelination in the frontal lobe - the brain region responsible for decision-making - happens last, and it was in this region that the brains of risk-seeking teens in the study showed greater development compared with the frontal lobes of their more restrained peers. (See pictures of the college dorm...