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...fast pace of growing up today, some students are clearly distressed,” they write. “Professionals in their thirties and forties—physicians, lawyers, academics, business people and others—sometimes give the impression that they are dazed survivors of some bewildering life-long boot-camp…Often they say they missed their youth entirely, never living in the present, always pursuing some ill-defined future goal...
...Gialanis. Gialanis said the fire department became aware that Evans was in the building early on in the operation. “Since we knew she was deceased at the time, we waited until the medical examiner arrived to remove the body,” he said. Evans, a life-long Cambridge resident had lived alone in the two-room apartment for the last six years. An active and popular member of the Cambridge Senior Center, she worked in the stockroom at Filene’s Basement in Natick until her retirement more than ten years ago, the Globe reported...
...Even if you don’t spend one day in prison, a conviction on a drug charge is the equivalent to a life-long sentence,” wrote Scarlett Swerdlow, the executive director of drug law reform group Students for Sensible Drug Policy, in an e-mail. “Youth can forget an education [with] a conviction on a drug charge—no matter the nature or number of the offense. You could have made a mistake twenty years ago, but are ready to turn your life around, only to find that the national government...
...including youth—bear the brunt of the Drug War,” Swerdlow wrote. “Not only in terms of the time they spend behind bars—anywhere from one to five to ten to twenty to fifty years—but the life-long consequences that come with a conviction on a marijuana charge...
From that moment in eighth grade when Johnny Nitro first pranced across my television screen, I knew I had begun a life-long obsession with something truly stupid. Any entertainment where dry ice and theme music are essential to plot development is not the kind of thing one discusses in polite company. But still, I must confess: I love professional wrestling. To this day, I maintain a crush on The Raven, a scrawny little Gothic dude who always won the “Cage Matches” by beating his opponents over the head with metal folding chairs...