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...when I realized how much he liked what ketamine was doing to his amazing brain. I was afraid that Sasha had tasted a forbidden fruit, peeked into a place he might never forget, one he might long for. Into a 9-year-old mind already struggling with so much adult turmoil, we had loosed a psychedelic snake proffering an alternative and apparently pleasant reality...
...Romney stands out among his Republican peers for taking on healthcare. The story of Romneycare is well known: Romney required each Massachusetts adult to buy healthcare insurance, enrolled Medicaid candidates who hadn’t realized they were eligible, and helped those who couldn’t afford their own insurance with federal funds previously used to dole out free care to walk...
Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) is a not entirely unfamiliar paradox: one of those teenagers who knows less about the world than she thinks she does, but more about it than the adult world credits her with understanding. You're never quite sure which Juno you're trying to reason with, the innocent idealist or the shrewdly appraising demi-adult, especially since she offers all opinions in the same tone of voice - brisk, brusque, funny and very often dismissive of our pieties...
...Abstinence Teacher, by Tom Perrotta From its titillating title, I expect the book will feature hoards of sexed-up teenagers and one hyper-conscious adult fighting to bring to them a sense of moral enlightenment. The cover is a picture of a green chalk board, on which two chalk birds and several chalk bees are drawn. Judging by this punny picture, this book should be entertaining, light, and full of those awkward “birds-and-the-bees” moments. The Cleft, by Doris Lessing Cleft sentence, cleft palate, cleft chin, or the Cleft of Venus...
...longer a kid, and I need to figure out what my life is about,’” says Mueller. “Twenty is such a terrible age,” he added. “You’re already an adult but you still can’t buy alcohol...