Word: adults
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Senate is Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy, which is why Kyl and Kennedy have been meeting in back rooms of the Capitol to haggle over a point-based system in which both skills and family ties would count to an applicant's advantage. But under any scenario, siblings, parents and adult children would lose their automatic ticket in. Which means that if Bush gets the immigration reform he wants this summer, family values won't stop at the Rio Grande, but they will have competition getting across...
...also assumes that film scenes showing adult characters smoking causes young people to smoke. Amidst all the cultural messages young people receive, film dramatizations can’t compare to the influence of friends, family, teachers, and doctors, among others. Besides, if we accept the fact that minors should not see films depicting unhealthy behavior, they will not see movies about anorexia, war, drug abuse, suicide, and many other topics – even though these films might help them understand the world better...
...Afolabi, who began writing while taking an evening class at London's City Lit adult education institute, says he was surprised to discover this bleakness in his stories: "I had no idea that there was so much despair in them. I'd never consciously thought about what I was writing until the collection was put together. I'm not a despairing person. I always want to begin with some sort of dilemma, or problem, and for the characters to come to some sort of resolution, or some sort of understanding." Indeed, there are glimmers of hope and redemption...
...most of their adult lives, Oakley and Valdez never had to pretend they were straight, and for the most part, Dallas didn't care--or didn't ask. But as they have assumed more powerful roles, their sexuality has occasionally seemed like an encumbrance. Oakley has woken up at 4 a.m. worried that a single "tacky mail piece" emphasizing his sexuality could keep him from the mayor's office. He had had one of those nights when we met for breakfast, and he spent the meal nervously doodling on napkins and periodically asking me to turn my recorder off. Oakley...
...interesting pair because they so neatly straddle the main anxiety running through the rest of the magazine—are we big girls or little girls? Do we want to grow up or do we want to go back to basics? Several articles express frustration at the adult world and warn college students against rushing in; the position here is pro-freedom, pro-Bueller, pro-“Dammit.” The main photo spread has the girls playing at a playground, one of them drinking from a juice box and another eating cookies. Between that...