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...finger at teen sociopaths with guns and trench-coat mafias, Japan's reaction has been to blame a subset of societal misfits: the hikikomori (those who isolate themselves). These youths (typically male) shut themselves up in their bedrooms, cutting off contact with the outside world, often for years, into adulthood. "I didn't want anyone to see me, and I didn't want to see anyone," says a hikikomori, 23, who finally came out of his reclusive world a year ago. Some of those accused in the crime spree--including the bus hijacker and a man who kidnapped a girl...
...Adulthood has no doubt sharpened Karenna's political instincts, but they have failed her father on occasion. Some say Gore and his daughter are both stubborn and arrogant, each falling in love with the other's thinking simply because it's an echo of their own. Karenna, for instance, pushed to bring in Naomi Wolf, the feminist writer who advocates, among other things, teaching children the value of masturbation. Wolf's $15,000-a-month salary and memos pushing Gore to be an "alpha male" left the candidate withered by weeks of derisive press just as Bill Bradley started...
...adults who had died as a result of accidents, suicide or murder. Based on these results, researchers say that 2% of boys ages 15 to 18 have serious atherosclerosis with their arteries 40% blocked with plaque. And the diet and exercise habits set among teens tend to persist into adulthood...
...when asked how he could support prosecuting some children as adults when they have none of the rights associated with adulthood, Sullivan said he believed that when people commit adult crimes, they should be treated as an adult...
...will be retiring younger than your parents and living longer than them too; in fact, if you started your career at 23, are one of the few sufficiently well off to be able to retire at 55, and live to be 90, you will spend more than half your adulthood in retirement--an unprecedented reconfiguration of life's traditional arc. But in what physical condition will you spend those years? And with what financial resources will you be able to finance them...