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Reichert's life has left other scars. Born in Minnesota in 1950 of German stock, Reichert is the eldest of seven children. When he was 11, his family moved to the town of Kent, south of Seattle. Like Ridgway--two years older and growing up nearby--Reichert spent his childhood playing in the fields and woods. His father worked in a warehouse, and the family was always short of money--but not discipline. "My father was the old iron German fist," says Reichert. "There was a lot of conflict there." But as the eldest of a large family, Reichert acted...
Katherine A. Brittell, a childhood neighbor, says Prescott exhibited her passion for literature at a young...
Seriousness stifled the exuberance and creativity of childhood. Like many women of her generation, Prescott says her life was already laid out before her: she anticipated that she would become either a teacher or a secretary...
...When her childhood impressions developed into a scholarly approach, Francis had finally found a place where could make a professional career of a personal pursuit...
What all these new findings come down to, suggests Dr. Molly Wagster, program director of neuropsychology of aging research at the National Institute on Aging, is some of the oldest and simplest truths we've known from childhood. If your short-term memory is failing you now, she says, "try to remember your parents telling you to read a book, eat your fruits and vegetables, go outside and play, and get a good night's sleep...