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...seems like most college students contact their parents when: 1) they need bail money, 2) they need spending money, or 3) if their lives are falling apart. I exaggerate, of course, but there is a feeling that since we're adults now, we no longer need to interact much with the folks whose mannerisms and characteristics probably shaped our 'adult' personas more than anyone else's. I don't understand that point of view. Sure, we are adults now, and living away from home reinforces the fact that we are individuals with identities...
According to the sources, Lasaga has beenactive in the New Haven branch of the Big BrothersBig Sisters organization, which pairsunderprivileged youths with adult mentors...
...mention one who is busy waiting to become the King of England, deserves a bit of peace and quiet. A chance to ride to the hounds--the hunting season is about to go into full-blooded swing in Gloucestershire--or relax, at long last, into an increasingly public, adult relationship with his longtime love, Camilla Parker Bowles. Now that it appears as if history and the media are finally beginning to cast a kind eye upon him, he might even be able to rest a bit on his laurels...
...handle stress. And she chronicles the problems that researchers have, even today, in getting institutions to take the problem seriously. Two scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health, for example, were stymied when they attempted to undertake a groundbreaking study of the connection between childhood sexual abuse and adult disorders such as self-injury. "We don't do that kind of research," the researchers say they were told by NIMH officials, as funding for the project dried up. Strong doesn't advocate a particular therapeutic approach--though, like Levenkron, she prefers coddling to the tougher tactics of Conterio...
EMANCIPATED. DOMINIQUE MOCEANU, 17, Olympic gold-medal gymnast; by a Texas state judge; in Houston. The 1996 champion was declared a legal adult in a settlement with her parents, whom she accused of squandering her earnings. The decision lets her seek a past accounting and make her own future deals...