Word: adults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...caring for someone with dementia, be sure you also take care of yourself--for your own and your patient's sake. Contact the Alzheimer's Association www.alz.org for support groups and adult day-care centers. It also runs an invaluable service called Safe Return, which helps with searches for Alzheimer's patients who wander from home. Whether you suffer dementia or love someone who does, the condition is difficult enough to cope with without trying to face it alone...
...before last fall's discovery that the fetal human brain contains master cells (called neural stem cells) that can grow into any kind of brain cell. Snyder extracted these cells and "mass-produced" them in the lab. His hope is that the cells, when injected into a damaged adult brain, will turn themselves into replacements for cells that are dead or diseased...
Jimmy: "The scene played out like an aspiring young adult's nightmare. I was going to my first real taste of the band, and the concert seemed to be attended entirely by teeny-boppers of the Britney variety. And it was Halloween, so a majority of the teens were dressed in costumes, adding a surreal flavor to an already strange night.What were probably hired actors stood outside the venue with sandwich boards proclaiming "America Will Burn" and handing out humorous pamphlets declaring that God does not play the bongos. The theme of the concert I was to discover later...
...every decision I make is affected by my being a woman, how it affects my place at this school, on this planet, and in my mind. Williams sings a song entitled "When I Was a Boy," which focuses on the jolting change from androgynous youth to adolescent and adult society, where gender determines rules for behavior and lifestyle...
...about young adulthood that turns people on to smoking? The intoxicating freedom? The feeling of invincibility? The looming prospect of lung cancer? It may be none of the above, but according to a study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control, something is turning '90s college-age adults into smokers at a higher rate than their '80s counterparts. Despite success in some population groups, adult smoking rates in the 1990s have remained essentially static, thanks to large numbers of 18-to-24-year-olds who are picking up the habit. Between 1965 and 1990, the percentage of Americans...