Word: development
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your roommate is a crucial component of the college experience. I dropped out of school, partially because I had a very bad roommate experience my second year. I think the likely result of this policy will be that students will leave or develop alternative living arrangements that allow them to relieve their discomfort. In fact, I suspect that if the issue were researched, it would be found that in almost every situation where there was discomfort and a change request was denied, some arrangement of this sort occurred. You can't force people to live together...
...After the age of 56, you develop a moralistic and structured view and desire to be organized and actualize your potential...
Military coups typically succeed such popular murmurs of dissatisfaction when true societal development does not keep up with political reform. Nigerian citizens cannot afford another military coup, but according to Obasanjo, the real issue is whether the world can afford to pay $30 billion to avoid another military coup in Nigeria. With ambiguities about the future of military institutions in countries such as Nigeria, it would appear that the situation could quickly develop into a blackmail of the global financial assistance system. This is why President Obasanjo's threat to the western world--that if the external debt...
HEAD COUNT When a child experiences a severe blow to the head--in a car or bike accident, for instance--there may be an unexpected consequence: the onset of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. A small study shows that within a year of injury, 20% of kids develop the behavioral problem. Interestingly, researchers found that all the children with ADHD had developed lesions in the same area, deep in the right side of the brain...
Damasio knows that adults with injuries to the prefrontal cortex develop very similar problems, often quitting their jobs, gambling away their savings and alienating family and friends. But in those cases, the people still seem to know the difference between right and wrong. By contrast, the two young adults never seemed to have developed a moral compass in the first place...