Word: adulthoods
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...Infinity costs $205. "Age-appropriate behavior is something we've lost sense of," says Joan Jacobs Brumberg, the author of The Body Project. "It's appropriate to say to children that you do certain things--like drive, wear makeup--at certain ages. Otherwise, the line between childhood and adulthood will disappear...
...made sure that a high school report card was printed in facsimile in a collection of his work "to show my own children that I was not as dumb as everyone has said I was." He sustained the traumas of his adolescence far into adulthood - far enough, in the end, to see them become a crucial element in the universal popularity...
Christmas comes but once a year, and as we all know, it is a very long day. Especially when someone who shall remain my sister doesn't let a little thing like adulthood stop her from shrieking over the contents of her fluffy red stocking at the crack of dawn. And then imagine, if you will, a holiday sans liquor; I don't have to since my parents don't drink. So, 6:30 a.m. wakeup + ginger ale = 4 p.m. matricide...
...woman who leaves both sons with their respective grandparents in order to join a commune in California, Bruno and Michel become, essentially, the direct descendants of their age. Both dracins endure lonely and occasionally brutal childhoods that leave them unlovable and incapable of loving by the time they reach adulthood. Michel, a brilliant molecular biologist, gradually withdraws from human contact. Unable to experience emotion, he finds solace instead in his work, which culminates in no less than a Kuhnian shift in paradigm. Bruno, who is neither particularly dashing nor particularly well-endowed (the latter being of even more importance...
...like the movie Gremlins," says Marie-Claude Bomsel, a veterinary expert at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. "These little creatures are adorable and docile while babies but become uncontrollable and violent in adulthood. Deprived of their natural socialization and incapable of adapting to human life, these monkeys become highly stressed, aggressive sociopaths that owners can't handle." The fear is that, left in parks and forests, the monkeys may turn on innocent humans taking walks in the woods...