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...curiosity, I researched what's involved in changing a child's name. According to nolo.com a legal-information website, in most states an adult can make a name change official "by simply using [it] in all aspects of your...life." Children, however, usually need a court order...
...growing fascination leads me to turn down party invitations, avoid the phone and stay up way beyond any reasonable hour. I am a woman obsessed. And I have finally transcended my adult embarrassment enough to take my book into the outside world...
...scientist whose work has been transformed by genomics is Dr. David Altshuler, an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who does research at M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute. A diabetes expert, he wanted to learn more about a gene known to be involved in adult-onset (Type II) diabetes and obesity. He knew that the gene was about 100,000 chemical letters--or base pairs--long, and that only about 2,000 of those directed the production of a protein...
...aren't risks to taking the pill; women who smoke or have high blood pressure are not good candidates, and unless you are particularly fastidious about taking your pill at the same time every day, you run the risk of pregnancy. But when one considers the fact that an adult could easily kill herself by downing a bottle of something as universally accessible and generally innocuous as aspirin, the argument to keep the pill out of widespread circulation on the basis of its potential health hazards loses most of its steam...
...semester off, things will change--and most often for the better. Your bodies will change--they don't call it the Freshman Fifteen for nothing. You might grow extremely distant from the person you were during high school. But by leaving home to attend college as an independent adult, you are not growing more distant from who you once were, but rather closer to the person that you will become...