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...Often this comes with an epiphany: 'Oh, my God, Dad's getting old,'" says University of Southern California sociologist Vern Bengtson. A small event, like superorganized Mom losing her checkbook, may be the trigger. Or the recognition of parental decline may dawn gradually. Some offspring fight off the reality until a crisis hits, while others fret and nag long before their parents need any help. Many folks, Bengston points out, enter old age relatively healthy, still helping their kids with baby-sitting and financial support, but their offspring may overreact to small, normal signs of their parents' aging...
...Nestled in the heart of Nambung National Park 245 km north of Perth, the limestone formations, which range in height from a few millimeters to four meters, have been sculpted by the erosive forces of wind and water. A dawn or dusk visit is a must. At these times, the pillars take on an ethereal beauty, casting shadows that lend an eerie ambiance to the landscape...
Just after dawn the old city begins to wake. The jackhammer throb of a thousand electricity generators competes with raucous Hindi music blasting from the stereos they have brought to life. A discordant orchestra of scooter bleats, car horns, rickshaw chimes and temple bells nearly drowns out one of the day's early funeral processions. The cortege turns into the packed alleys surrounding the Golden Temple, where lanes that barely fit two abreast are thronged with devotees, foreheads smeared with vermilion tikka, a blessing from the temple priest...
...other bodies have been burning since dawn. The funeral pyres, once piled more than a meter high, are now nothing but smoldering heaps of ash and fragmented bone. A blackened skull is all that remains of one; on the other a heat-shriveled thigh juts out, still attached to a cracked pelvis bone. Curiously, there is no odor of burnt flesh or hair. The bodies, in preparation for burning, have been dipped in the Ganges. "The holy river purifies all beings," says Papu, spitting betel juice from between blackened teeth. "That is why there is no odor...
Ward finished off the Crimson’s attack by downing Brown freestyler and Jamaican Olympian Dawn Chuck in the final 100 with a stellar 49.98 split. Ward capped off Harvard’s second relay record of the night, touching the wall in a cumulative time...