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...fully consider myself an adult. Nor do I expect myself to have that maturity, having led a sheltered life thus far. Whatever your experiences at Harvard are, don't kid yourself: Harvard is not the real world and, thus, is a hard place to develop the perspective adulthood requires...
...comic-book fame. Had they survived, they would have been about 15 in. long at birth--"about the size of a small poodle," says Chiappe--but 40 ft. to 50 ft. from the tips of their giraffe-like necks to the ends of their long, ground-hugging tails in adulthood. The third team leader, paleontologist Rodolfo Coria of Argentina's Museo Municipal Carmen Funes, identifies them more specifically as titanosaurs, smaller versions of sauropods that were common in the area...
Sometimes a society makes a tectonic shift, some great half-conscious collective decision. That happened with smoking, which was once, remember, a glamorous ritual of romance and adulthood. (Watch Casablanca and count the cigarettes.) It may be happening now with hunting. In 1997, the various states issued 14.9 million hunting licenses. Ten years earlier, the number was 15.8 million--not a dramatic change, but a trend. The average American hunter is white, male and 42 years old. Young people who once would have gone hunting naturally and casually in nearby fields and forests (as Glenn Shepard does) instead play soccer...
...problem lies in the fact that adulthood requires making conscious decisions. Those of us who were thrown out on the ice at age two-those who, as the saying goes, were asked to jump and answered "How high?"-run a tremendous risk of finding ourselves, 20 years later, too old to be impressive and lacking the more important skill of being able to make our own decisions. Perhaps this explains the anxieties of so many seniors who, four years ago entered Harvard as the nation's most promising young adults and who now find themselves facing graduation while helplessly searching...
...tales of his hero's Siberian grandmother, then wavered into lifeless self-absorption in a present-day section set in France. His quirky, likable new novel returns to rural Siberia in the 1970s, where three clueless teenage boys try to make sense of rumored wonders: women, the Western world, adulthood. Their unlikely guide is the ultra-cool French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, one of whose films is playing in a town 20 miles away on a river called Amur (Russian for Cupid). Though the boys live in a backwater where spit freezes before it hits the ground, and an escaped...