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...seems when most people hit the age of 20, they have a premature mid-life crisis. Moving away from the carefree teens and entering into adulthood is a frightening transition, and the twentieth birthday seems to be the demarcation. Agnes M. Chu '02, a Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator from San Diego, Calif., faced this same problem. "On my 20th birthday last year I sobbed all day. It sounds very melodramatic, but it was terrible," she explains. But whereas most adults going through mid-life crises buy convertibles or divorce their spouses, Agnes decided to pursue a different outlet...
...look at the world through the newness of experience. Although Agnes's video is still in the post-production stages, one awaits the opportunity of not only seeing foreign places, but also perceiving them from the viewpoint of a young filmmaker on the threshold of adulthood...
...alike, is that young girls who look like teenagers will be under intense pressure to act like teenagers. Childhood is short enough as it is, with kids bombarded from every direction by sexually explicit movies, rock lyrics, MTV videos and racy fashions. If young girls' bodies push them into adulthood before their hearts and minds are ready, what will be forever lost...
...book, Wallerstein argues that children don't care if their parents are happy--they just want the stability of a two-parent household, without which they would later flail through adulthood and have a hard time forming good relationships. This conclusion, like her other gloomy generalizations ("Parenting erodes almost inevitably at the breakup and does not get restored for years, if ever"), is based on a small, nonrepresentative sample of families who were going through divorce in l971 in affluent Marin County, Calif. Wallerstein looks for evidence that divorce harms kids, and of course she finds it--now well into...
...HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE This and the related Insulin Growth Factor 1 will figure on the podium. Human growth hormone is a naturally occurring amino acid. It controls the release of IGF-1, which helps maintain growth rates from birth to adulthood. Genetically engineered hGH, available since 1985, was developed for people with growth-hormone deficiency, such as children with dwarfism...