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...doing fashion stuff and her name became much more talked about. I'd met famous people as a kid, like Charlie Chaplin when he returned from exile, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol. What was cool about my parents was, my brother and I were expected to sit at the adult table. There was never a kids' table. To me, the greatest privilege of the way I grew up was realizing at a very young age that these people are just as unhappy as everyone else. Once you realize that, it frees you up from believing that fame or riches are going...
...some, the idea is a natural, while others may have to give it a little thought. As their parents age but stay relatively healthy, growing numbers of adult children are taking them on special vacations. The most successful, those travelers say, are geared to fulfilling the parents' desires, whether it's a trip they've always wanted to make or an experience they've never even imagined. Those journeys work best when all participants tailor expectations to such realities as how much a parent can comfortably do and the kind of relationship parent and child have with each other...
...form of civics lessons, as if learning to be part of a world community could be articulated in a lecture, or summarized in a review sheet. Sure, classes can teach us a lot about rights and responsibilities, but in the bigger picture, learning how to be an adult or a global citizen in your Moral Reasoning class is about as likely as discovering true enjoyment solely through college-sponsored fun. I continue to believe that the best friends will make the best writers, the best doctors, the best leaders, and the best local and global citizens. I will offer...
...future, we’ll be pressured to channel our conceptual energies into specific and limited applications, compartmentalizing what and when we are allowed to learn. Even if we attain intellectually fulfilling careers, we will still have to contend with the unavoidable peril of adult life: that is, of thinking becoming a mere chore that we’ll want to avoid whenever we aren’t made...
...research refining old ideas? Not this time. The change had less to do with medicine than with marketing. "Our concern," explains Russell Pate, an exercise physiologist at the University of South Carolina and lead author of the CDC report, "was that a very large percentage of the adult population was not meeting the existing standard." Reasoning that the guidelines were just too intimidating for most people and that a little exercise had to be better than none at all, Pate and his colleagues decided to lighten up the message. "The recommendations do not say," he emphasizes, "that vigorous activity...