Word: adults
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...public. The company declines to discuss whether an IPO is in the works, but, according to one insurance industry analyst at a London investment bank, investors would likely welcome a flotation because of Saga's strong brand and impressive track record. And given that nearly half the U.K.'s adult population will be 50 or older by 2020, it's not about to run out of potential customers anytime soon...
...whole affair represents something sordid about our obsession with on-screen perfection. We have moved from adult admiration of Marilyn Monroe’s alabaster complexion to perfectly crafted and precociously sexualized children. I don’t like to think where Hollywood will take us next...
...curriculum by collecting surveys from patients and their families at the BMC’s Endocrinology Clinic on the health issues about which they would like to learn. Recent medical research shows that the obesity epidemic both worldwide and in the United States now affects not only the adult population, but also youths. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the share of youths between ages six and 19 who are overweight has more than tripled in the past 25 years. The STRENGTH program is designed to combat this trend of increased childhood obesity, which predisposes youths...
...know who has a mind? According to responses to an online survey conducted by the Harvard Psychology Department, we believe people with minds boast two attributes: agency and experience. “The common perception was that an adult human had the most mind and there’s a little less when you get to a baby, even less when you get to a man in a vegetative state, all the way down to a dead person when there’s no one there at all,” said Professor of Psychology and the senior author...
...Jules Feiffer became famous in the '50s for what many called the first adult comic strip, Sick Sick Sick (later just Feiffer), which ran in The Village Voice and other papers. But Feiffer knew the superhero comics so well because he loves them as a kid and he wanted to be an artist; he studied these strips from the wrist up. In his late teens he assisted Will Eisner in drawing The Spirit. Here's his evocative iconography of the comics hero...