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...Most of their needs are taken care of by Mom and Dad, so their income is largely discretionary. [Many twentysomethings] are living at home, but if you look, you'll see flat-screen TVs in their bedrooms and brand-new cars in the driveway." Some twixters may want to grow up, but corporations and advertisers have a real stake in keeping them in a tractable, exploitable, pre-adult state--living at home, spending their money on toys...
There may even be a biological basis to all this. The human brain continues to grow and change into the early 20s, according to Abigail Baird, who runs the Laboratory for Adolescent Studies at Dartmouth. "We as a society deem an individual at the age of 18 ready for adult responsibility," Baird points out. "Yet recent evidence suggests that our neuropsychological development is many years from being complete. There's no reason to think 18 is a magic number." How can the twixters be expected to settle down when their gray matter hasn...
...heads a research consortium called the MacArthur Network on Transitions to Adulthood. "They're pushing people off the rolls, but they're not necessarily able to transition into supportive services or connections to other systems." And programs for the poor aren't the only ones that need to grow up with the times. Only 54% of respondents in the TIME poll were insured through their employers. That's a reality that affects all levels of society, and policymakers need to strengthen that safety...
...YOURSELF MORE AS A SCIENTIST OR A PHILOSOPHER? I don't know what I see myself as. I'm just trying to decide what I'll do when I grow up, to be honest. My attempt is to bridge the scientific insights of today with the spiritual yearning that we all have...
RONALD SARGENT: I think there is still lots of opportunity in this business. The top three--Office Depot, OfficeMax and us--only have about 20% of the U.S. market. Still, during the dotcom era, investors thought we were growing too fast, and I think Wall Street wanted to figure out who was going to win in this industry. The question for us was, How does a fast-growth company grow up from adolescence to become a little more of a mature company...