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Researchers don't know exactly how a child's body decides to start the two-to-three-year process of becoming a biological adult. But they do know the first stage begins in the brain, when a chemical signal, called gonadotropin-releasing hormone, unleashes a series of biochemical reactions in the body. Soon girls will notice a swelling of tissue around the nipples. (Menstruation usually begins a year or two later.) In boys, the penis and testes start to grow larger...
...practices. Cruz was convicted 12 years ago of the rape and stabbing murder of 24-year-old Kelly Donovan, an Air Force linguist in San Antonio. Cruz has confessed, and, his advocates argue, shows anguished remorse. His is not, however, the kind of remorse one might expect from an adult, Cruz's lawyers insist. Cruz's comprehension of his crime and the implications of his actions are childlike, similar to the reaction of a five-year-old who knocks over a glass of milk and has no idea he's done something wrong until his parents scold him and reduce...
...more executions during his five-year tenure in Austin than any other governor in the nation since capital punishment was reinstated, has made his support for executing mentally retarded inmates clear. In 1995, the newly minted governor rejected a clemency plea from lawyers for Mario Marquez, a mentally retarded adult whose verbal and reasoning skills were comparable to those of a 7-year-old child...
...father's surrogate. "Have you ever worked for your dad and been good at it?" asks a veteran of that campaign. "It gives me goose bumps to think about it. He was just extremely happy. Inside, he was working with his dad, if not as a peer, then an adult; and on the outside, he was giving speeches. He saw the reaction. He was a real success." When he left, he told an associate that it had been the best 18 months of his life...
...with because of his attention-deficit disorder. The unwritten rule of TV's teen portrayals is that they must be cautionary tales, all sex and guns and social decay. Cutler set out instead to capture a poignant crossroads--"when you're a kid, rushing to grow up, and an adult, hanging on to the last vestiges of childhood." High dares, subversively, to find decency in its children of suburban comfort, from Morgan to soulful jock Robby to Kaytee, a winsome songwriter with a defensive ironic streak...