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Health care is also a pressing concern for many young Americans. After the age of 18, many young people find themselves without health coverage, vulnerable to the high costs of injury or serious illness right when they are beginning adulthood. That’s why the first component of my health care plan will cover every American...
Buddy grows to normal human size and towers over all the other elves when he reaches adulthood. Yet he continues to believe that he is still an elf despite his obvious physical differences, until one day the secret is exposed and he is told that his father lives and works in New York City. The horrible truth, however, is that although Buddy is the epitome of goodness and happiness, his father, played by James Caan, is an unapologetic member of the “naughty list...
...Buddhism, says, “it’s probably taken [me] 13 years just to see that it’s a religion.” Counter-intuitive as that may sound, it is actually a pretty common sentiment among many who come to Buddhism in adulthood. The most popular way of expressing it is to say, as Henry W. Mak ’06 says, “I’m philosophically Buddhist.” Mak meditates daily and calls the practice “the core of my life,” but that core...
Children can develop weight problems at any age, but there are periods when kids are especially vulnerable. One, it's now clear, is the transition from teen years to young adulthood. Results from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health presented last week revealed that in the five years from 1996 to 2001, about 2 million young Americans joined the ranks of the clinically obese. --By David Bjerklie
...Leaving Mother Lake ends two decades ago with Namu departing her homeland and entering adulthood. Her life of Chinese celebrity began shortly after?and is ending now. These days Namu rarely gads about Europe on the elbows of wealthy Western men. Versace has given way to Chinese-style gowns, and her books have grown thinner as she runs out of things to say. She is, she says, negotiating to become the "cultural ambassador" for Red Pagoda Mountain cigarettes. Gone are both the glamorous Western life that she sold in Chinese and the Mother Lake upbringing that she sells in English...