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...course, besides the transient fears of being sideswiped, rear-ended, or run off the road, my lingering apprehension is that the Boston driving style will somehow rub off—that I’ll somehow become hesitant and aimless, like so many of my fellow drivers. I fear that soon the transformation will be so complete that I won’t survive on the streets of my own city...
...hint of depth (2000's Warning had more diverse instrumentation and was vaguely political), its popularity gave it no incentive to evolve. But over the past few years, younger outfits like Good Charlotte and Sum 41--who admit a musical debt to Green Day--began siphoning off the aimless-adolescent market. By the time Superhits! was released, Green Day's sales were declining, and Armstrong, Dirnt and Cool, all barely 30, felt very...
Galantha's frenetic hopping from school to school, job to job and city to city may look like aimless wandering. (She has moved six times since 1999. Her father calls her and her sister gypsies.) But Emerging Adulthood's Arnett--and Galantha--see it differently. To them, the period from 18 to 25 is a kind of sandbox, a chance to build castles and knock them down, experiment with different careers, knowing that none of it really counts. After all, this is a world of overwhelming choice: there are 40 kinds of coffee beans at Whole Foods Market, 205 channels...
...challenging in the party’s history. The legion of campaign doctors prescribing various cure-all remedies for a once mighty party—Embrace religion! Nominate a Midwesterner! Attack gay marriage!—seem too quick to judge. Much of their advice feels cheap—aimless and tactical and self-serving—rather than the beginning of the great conversation that can define a better future...
...residents in assisted-living facilities are suffering from mental illness, according to a new study by Indiana University. In a four-state survey of 2,100 seniors living in these increasingly popular elder-care facilities, physicians found that fully two-thirds of the residents exhibited behaviors ranging from aimless wandering and hoarding to more serious signs of dementia, depression and psychosis. Such symptoms are thought to be far more common in those living in nursing homes, who suffer from more serious medical problems. Similar signs of mental instability are found in 50% to 80% of those residents. --By Alice Park