Word: adulthood
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...risk for health problems later in life. Two additional reports, also appearing in the current issue of Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, suggest that children's sleeplessness may be associated with an increased risk of being overweight and having emotional and behavioral difficulties in adolescence and adulthood...
...young people we are inextricably tied to this war. Some of us are fighting on the front lines. All of us will bear the debt of this war well into our adulthood. We have developed our worldviews as our government has waged occupation and torture abroad. And together we will search to find meaning and progress as we begin to stumble our way out of Iraq. As young people, this...
...conducted, but the question is essentially the same.) In a 2001 study, Susan Charles at University of California, Irvine, measured something slightly different: changes in positive affect, or positive emotions, versus negative affect over more than 25 years. Charles found that positive affect stayed roughly stable through young adulthood and midlife, falling off a little in older age; negative affect, meanwhile, fell consistently with...
...financially. “I’m working, I’m getting financial aid, and I’m very grateful to Harvard,” he says, citing the differences in environment between home and Harvard. Only a few years into adulthood, Brooks has had to legally declare himself independent. But he’s out, in a happy relationship, and waging the good fight for himself and his peers.Brooks believes his case is unique among the College’s openly gay population. Students hailing from the scattered regions of the country where homosexuality is approaching...
...world with both a DMV and a DMZ? Did a globe with one Congo have to confuse things with two? And after I worked so hard when I was a kid remembering to call Russia the Soviet Union, was it really sporting to wait till I reached adulthood to tell me to forget...