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...Japan withholds this consent like a zealot withholds an admission of doubt. At the political level there is no provision for dual nationality in adulthood, so on his or her twentieth birthday our child must go through the ritual of renouncing British citizenship in the eyes of Japanese law?while retaining both European Union and Japanese citizenship in the eyes of British law. On a civic level, even Hiroshima, my home for eight years and, according to its tourist literature "the international city of peace," denies Korean conscripts killed in the A-bomb blast a monument in Peace Memorial Park...
...much as I love answering questions about myself, there’s one I’ve never been particularly good at: What do you want to be when you grow up? Unofficial adulthood is three months away and counting, and I still have no idea where I want to end up. Trying to put together a capital-C Career is so daunting a prospect that I was willing to wait in line for two hours with a chirpy talent agent on one side of me and a nerve-wracking two minutes of camera time on the other...
Still, late-life reunions can make for good relationships. Shared history and values grow more compelling as people age. Says Laura Carstensen, a Stanford University psychologist who studies emotional development in adulthood: research shows that "relationships benefit from knowledge of a person earlier in life." As people retire from careers, external signs of identity, like an office or affiliation, disappear. So it's valuable to know someone from your past "who knew...
...what's being measured is their misery. For decades, since a pioneering study by Judith S. Wallerstein in 1971, sociologists and family-health specialists have posited that the wrenching act of divorce and its aftermath leave scars that can linger--in the afflicted children, throughout adolescence and into adulthood. This theory, buttressed by Wallerstein's 2000 best seller, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study, helped explain so many ills--depression, juvenile delinquency, poor grades--even as it justified a flourishing victim-and-caregiver industry...
...penned in youth, may be able to predict a person's chances of getting Alzheimer's later in life. That link is still quite controversial; less so are some of the study's other findings, such as the protection the brain apparently gets from higher education pursued in young adulthood or from engaging in constant mental activity like playing card games or teaching during one's golden years...