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...second fact that makes the Yom Kippur experience unique in college, and which prevents the holiday's message from being uniquely Jewish, is that each year at Harvard is distinct from the one that preceded it, and everyone in the University community experiences that change. Unlike most of professional adult life, when summer vacations and fresh starts in September do not exist, life at school gives us an opportunity every autumn to see our lives with fresh eyes and, if we wish, to remake ourselves--with or without the aid of the deity of our choice. Each year...
...that the British government, after countless centuries, decided that a pound sterling did not, in fact, consist of 20 shillings, each of which consisted in turn of 12 pence. Suddenly, the pound consisted of simply 100 pence--a system whose logic and simplicity must have struck the average English adult as positively disorienting...
P.L.A.Y. CORPS decided to target this age group of children because "if a kid doesn't participate by the time he or she is 12, there is only a 10 percent chance they will participate as an adult," Hochman said...
From a telephone poll of 827 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Sept. 10-11 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Margin of error for subgroups +/- 5.5%-10.2%. "Not sures" omitted...
...American college students to be more emotionally dependent on their parents than their European counterparts. However, going off to college is akin to a rite of passage in American culture, marking the beginning of a transformation from a dependent child to an independent one and rapidly thereafter to an adult...