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...demand is for? Is the surrogate mother's child really comparable (let alone analogous) to a work of art? A work of art may be a part of the artist who creates it, but it surely is not human. No matter how beautiful, it will not grow into adulthood, complete with a psyche of its own. If he insists on using the analogy, will Mr. Lichtman also argue that, like a human child, a work of art is in itself affected by its "owner"? Probably not, because after all, a work of art is a thing, while a human baby...
INVESTMENTS. IN A COUPLE months I'll turn twenty-one and enter the world of adulthood. I'll probably buy a house, get a car and maybe even start paying taxes. Now, my Harvard education has taught me to take seriously such important decisions, to analyze the benefits of all my options. Yet, among a person's well-chosen commodities, there is one large investment that is usually made haphazardly. Beer...
...baby boomers have jostled through life competing for education, jobs, housing. When the baby-bust generation enters adulthood, however, it may discover the benefits of doing without: without as much unemployment, without as much demand for housing or cutthroat competition for good jobs, possibly even without as much crime. But the labor force, which will grow at a slower pace, may also find itself without the ability to sustain U.S. economic expansion or support an increasingly elderly population. "Business is going to be discombobulated," says Demographics Analyst Ben Wattenberg of the American Enterprise Institute. "I see the housing industry tearing...
...have now completed a study of some 1,000 "reflective-judgment interviews" with males and females of varying backgrounds, ages 14 to 55. The subjects evaluated four problems that have no right or wrong answers but are, in Kitchener's words, "the kind of problems most commonly faced in adulthood." Example: "Creation stories . . . suggest that a divine being created the earth and its people. Scientists claim, however, that people evolved from lower forms." Among the responses to this, one 18-year-old freshman brushed off anthropologists' arguments for evolution and came down on the side of the biblical dogma...
...your mortality while awaiting the test results. This is the situation in which Gillian Fairchild (Julie Andrews) finds herself on a Friday afternoon, with the lab scheduled to close for the weekend that now stretches endlessly before her. Her three children, all lost in the self-absorption of young adulthood, are arriving to attend the party she is throwing for her husband's 60th birthday. Under these circumstances she decides to keep the terror to herself...