Word: adulthood
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...watch on Sunday night, Daly said, “We’re old now.” We’re not old now (not yet), but I’ve finally resigned myself to the idea that I’m on the forestalled brink of adulthood. Time flies and things change, whether for the better, the worse, or the entirely indifferent...
...concentration, called “Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology,” will focus on how human beings develop from a fertilized egg, how humans are maintained and repaired throughout adulthood, and how they age until death, according to William J. Anderson, lecturer on stem cell and regenerative biology...
...majority without bringing together people who disagree on big things. But Obama's majority is at least as cohesive as Reagan's or F.D.R.'s. The cultural issues that have long divided Democrats - gay marriage, gun control, abortion - are receding in importance as a post-'60s generation grows to adulthood. Foreign policy doesn't divide Democrats as bitterly as it used to either because, in the wake of Iraq, once-hawkish working-class whites have grown more skeptical of military force. In 2004, 22% of voters told exit pollsters that "moral values" were their top priority, and 19% said terrorism...
...childhood, Virginia’s governor and many educators closed entire public school systems for years so that schools could not be desegregated. When I was in my teens, black and white activists were murdered for trying to ensure the franchise for black citizens. As recently as my young adulthood, three-fourths of whites agreed in a national survey that “blacks shouldn’t push themselves where they’re not wanted...
...Austrian authorities meanwhile are focusing on the rehabilitation of Fritzl's 42-year-old daughter Elisabeth and her six children. Psychiatrists say the children are more likely to suffer from a range of psychological problems in adulthood, including becoming abusive themselves. As a nation obsesses over one man's evil, the challenge now is to help his children escape their dark past...