Word: adulthoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...characters such as Barbie and the Little Mermaid are clearly pitched to girls. On the other end of the spectrum are sports games like John Madden Football (an early Trip Hawkins hit) designed to give older boys and men an excuse to extend their game-playing habits well into adulthood...
...distinct impression, however, that I did not fit the mode of this particular sample. The students and clientele alike dressed in a manner that spoke of serious money and, in the former's case, aspirations for imminent adulthood. The program was filled with advertisements for retirement communities. I hadn't brought along a folding beach chair. To make matters worse, I have no gold-sporting cousin named Morry...
...time: late May, With an epic and overweening sense of ceremony, I pen the last word on the last page of the last blue book of the last test of my second-to-last year of college. Life, I sense, is drawing to a close. Adulthood looms. Barely bothering to hand in the exam, I head screaming with glee into my Last Summer, running straight from the Science Center to Newbury Street to kick off three months of self-discipline...
What makes people gay? To conservative moralists, homosexuality is a sin, a willful choice of godless evil. To many orthodox behaviorists, homosexuality is a result of a misguided upbringing, a detour from a straight path to marital adulthood; indeed, until 1974 the American Psychiatric Association listed it as a mental disorder. To gays themselves, homosexuality is neither a choice nor a disease but an identity, deeply felt for as far back as their memory can reach. To them, it is not just behavior, not merely what they do in lovemaking, but who they are as people, pervading every moment...
...harbored in the body forever. The debilitated virus could conceivably spring to life years after the vaccination, and no one knows what damage might occur. Another danger is that the vaccine may not confer lifelong immunity and will therefore make a person vulnerable to chicken pox during adulthood, when the disease can be more serious. "It's impossible in the experimental studies preceding licensing to study a vaccine's effects for 50 years," says Dr. Caroline Hall of the American Academy of Pediatrics. "To the best of our knowledge, the varicella vaccine is safe...