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...Doors; of leukemia; in Memphis, Tenn. Lee never reached the fame of his contemporaries, but his 1967 album Forever Changes, which blended folk melancholy with rock verve, is one of the genre's most important albums. In May 2006, as part of his leukemia treatment, he became the first adult in Tennessee to receive a stem-cell transplant...
...noted that they both graduated from high school. Carrie Bergeron went on to Herkimer County Community College in upstate New York, where she received a teacher's aide certificate, and Sujeet Desai graduated from the Berkshire Hills Music Academy in South Hadley, Mass., a postsecondary program for young-adult musicians with cognitive or developmental disabilities. And both have found meaningful work based on their dreams--Carrie in child care and Suj as a performer...
...used to think that old age invited a regression to childhood, and, I suppose, the Depends sales chart powerfully continues to argue the accuracy of that opinion. But the members of the"?Active Adult" community centered around the Boynton Beach Club are of a different mind: Susan Seidelman's film shows them reverting to sex-obsessed adolescence. If, as the saying goes, Hollywood is high school with money, then retirement is, according to this movie, high school with Social Security checks and AARP cards...
...lucky enough to not have any pressing responsibilities outside of my job. On the other hand, the youth I work with are enmeshed in a Catch-22 of their own, much graver than mine. They need jobs in order to support themselves and stay afloat in communities where adult unemployment rates reach as high as 95 percent. Businesses, however, refuse to open stores in these poor, dangerous neighborhoods, and so teens must commute in order to join the workforce. Unfortunately, when you also go to high school and have to care for your children (in some of these communities...
...like to say that it is a luxury to be able to spend my twenties as an unattached young adult, free to live wherever, do whatever, or see whatever I’d like, for my life should be more interesting and more varied as a result...