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STANDING TALL Synthetic growth hormones help short, healthy kids achieve new heights--sometimes. The first major study to follow such youngsters through adulthood concludes that on average, 50% of patients who received the daily hormone injections grew about 2 in. taller than expected. Doctors, however, can't predict which children will respond and which won't. Cost of the gamble? Up to $20,000 a year...
...doesn't die, of course. The moral ofthe story, as we learn in the play's clumsyclosing monologue, is that adulthood is aboutchoice. This idea about the dangers of growing upwas revelatory when we, growing up, actually beganto discover it for ourselves: it was notrevelatory when we figured out that this was thesubject of The Jerusalem Disease, and itbecomes boring by the time Shrier actually forceshis narrator to explain it. The unsubtlety of theplot is compounded by the clumsiness of thedirect-address monologue through which the moralis conveyed: the play begins and ends with thecentral character, Noah Feldshriber--played byJuri...
When they were 18 years old, their rites of passage into adulthood--civil rights protest, the war in Vietnam, the counterculture--filled the nation's front pages. When they finally married and began families--often much later than their own parents--their family issues became the stuff of sitcoms. Throughout their now advancing lives, the baby boomers have always stood at the demographic center of American life. Their concerns have been the dominant concerns, their passions the dominant passions. So it stands to reason that as the baby-boom generation begins its massive sweep into...
...time at Harvard brings us closer to adulthood. Every day, we are forced to make decisions that influence the path our lives will take. Be it choosing classes, deciding which extracurricular activities to pour our hearts into, or evaluating whether or not a certain dining hall meal is edible, we are constantly making choices. Resolving questions such as these for ourselves leads to a higher level of maturity and propels us toward adulthood, toward an existence as freely-choosing individuals...
College is a step along the journey to adulthood, but I don't think I will reach the end of that progression until after I leave this place. Maybe then I'll be able to make the "big" decision of what I really want to do with my life...