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...think about it logically, I should be rejoicing at this moment. I have wanted to be an adult for as long as I remember. However, now that I am one, things are not quite the way I expected them to be. I had images of an adulthood that was some cross between the fast-paced corporate life on L.A. Law and the steamy underworld of the soap operas. I would be successful. I would be passionate. There would never be a dull moment...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Adulthood and Other Nightmares | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...were rebounding, and the jets their air forces flew in many cases were 1950s vintage, went the spiel. "We treat the Latins like children when we say they can't have new planes," says Joel Johnson, the Aerospace Industries Association's international vice president, implying that to have fully adult relations with other countries requires supplying them with sophisticated armaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW WASHINGTON WORKS...ARMS DEALS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...television, which functions not just as a business and debased art form but also as an increasingly fractured nation's de facto mirror of itself, the threshold is much lower. Controversy could mean starring in a sitcom as a gently scatterbrained former bookstore owner who, after years of adult floundering, reluctantly comes to a realization about her homosexuality and begins to take a few hesitant baby steps out of the closet and toward getting a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ROLL OVER, WARD CLEAVER | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...there is a heaven. We create it every day when we protect a child, help an adult and revere our home, the earth." GEORGE A. ERICKSON New Brighton, Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 14, 1997 | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...Overall I found the panel very good and supportive," said Business School student M. S. Christopher Willson. "Even as an adult undergraduate I need to have role models and see there are other people out there like...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Roemer, | Title: Gay, Lesbian Execs Say 'Coming Out' Accepted | 4/11/1997 | See Source »

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