Word: adulthoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brand awareness in childhood is brand preference in adulthood," she said, citing the popularity among children of Old Joe, the cartoon mascot of Camel Cigarettes...
Martin's childhood is tainted by insecurity, a crippling side-effect of his mother's shaky feelings about his handicap. Martin's lack of confidence seeps into his adulthood and prevents him from trusting anyone, especially his seductive house-keeper, Celia (Genevieve Picot...
Youngsters ages 10 to 15 are also vulnerable. "The original idea of junior high school was to ease the transition from childhood to adulthood," notes Hamburg. "Unfortunately, junior high has become a replica of high school. There are no distinctive social relationships or curriculum. It's actually wound up forcing children to make the transition to adulthood even earlier." Hamburg favors abolishing junior highs, or at the least radically reforming them, by creating smaller, more intimate schools within larger institutions and setting up a curriculum in the sciences and health that builds on students' natural preoccupation with their changing bodies...
...things stand now, merely luring another Black professor to HLS would cover up the real source of the diversity dilemma: not hiring discrepancies in adulthood, but educational ones in childhood. All that Bell and CCR are doing now is diverting attention away from more important civil rights issues. Bell a civil rights martyr...
...prospects for a girl her age were as bleak as they were inevitable. As the combination of chronic infections, clogged airways and digestive problems took their toll, she could not have expected to outlive her teens. But now, says Ramsey, "Brianna has an excellent chance of living into adulthood." In fact, although Ramsey and other clinicians are reluctant to raise false hopes, Brianna and thousands of other babies born with CF in the past few years may even live to see a cure. Says Ramsey: "In the next decade, we are going to see a revolution in treatment for this...