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...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 on DirecTV, 15 million personal ads on Match.com and 800,000 jobs on Monster.com...
Thirty-two seconds later, you’d have watched the Raiders knock home a puck that bounced high off Crimson blueliner Dylan Reese and right into Colgate hands, one of a slew of unlucky Harvard caroms...
...extensive work on adaptation, Edward Diener has found two life events that seem to knock people lastingly below their happiness set point: loss of a spouse and loss of a job. It takes five to eight years for a widow to regain her previous sense of well-being. Similarly, the effects of a job loss linger long after the individual has returned to the work force...
...remains on the books, and employers can run additional checks--even years later--if they're considering promoting, transferring or firing you. You have the right to refuse a credit check, but employment experts say that would probably put you at a disadvantage in the candidate pool, if not knock you out of contention altogether...
...though, “we seem to be pretty healthy—knock on wood,” Donato said. “That’s a huge advantage that we didn’t have [in the tournament...