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...one’s last year of college and thus one’s last real year of socially acceptable immaturity. Seen in this light, all of the advantages of senior year are double-edged. Being able to drink legally means the state thinks you’re an adult; the disdain for first-years is tinged with envy for their lack of cynicism; those business suits will need to be worn to interviews somewhere. The single bedroom prefigures adult isolation: gone is the forced, riotous intimacy we enjoyed in the Yard...
...recent Time/CNN poll asked 1,005 adult members of the general public how well they thought “things are going in the country these days.” Fifty-one percent said they thought that things were going very or fairly well. Well, well! Fear not, for the lukewarm public has spoken...
Even at a university that teems with undergraduates playing grownup, O’Mary’s fast-track entrance into the adult world was unusual...
...Translated into English by Vertical Inc. as an eight-volume series of stylish, $25 hardcovers, the third installment was released this month. Though Tezuka's characters are cartoonishly cute and he frequently inserts goofy humor, the series also explores adult themes of romance and violence. Literati and pop-culture mavens alike will enjoy this manga masterwork...
...longer duping the poor, innocent consumers into believing that fast food is healthy, McDonald’s new “Adult Happy Meal”—complete with salad and pedometer—will be a hit as Americans choose well-being over taste...