Word: adults
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...dying act, an adult female cicada creates the next generation, laying 400 to 600 eggs inside a slender tree branch by cutting small slits in it with her ovipositor, an organ that works like a saw. Six to 10 weeks later, the eggs hatch, and nymphs fall to the ground...
Warren Research Professor of the History of American Education at the Graduate School of Education Patricia A. Graham says the national trend is due to changing expectations of adult women...
...Basically this is largely a consequence of adult women now having greater choices for their lives, and boys who may be bright but who are disinterested in school not continuing their educations,” Graham, a former director of the National Institute of Education, writes in an e-mail...
Ochs, who is now 45, has worked in the romance languages department for 21 years—“my entire adult life,” she said...
...toward the 8-year-old and encourage him simply to "see it and hit it." As Jonathan improved, Chappell suggested targets at which to direct his strokes. "Within months he was playing shots - including forcing shots off the back foot - that I couldn't play until I was an adult," Chappell says. "His progress was incredible. And I hadn't taught him a thing." Perhaps, Chappell thought, Jonathan's ability was inherited. "But I've seen that rate of improvement too often since," he says, "in kids who don't have genetic advantages." (Jonathan was a standout in under...