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What if you have kids who constantly nag you to buy them things...
...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...
...itself a political narrative—ends at description, failing to provide a true critique of the system by not offering a “solution.” Didion does this intentionally; her goal is to “teach” and to “nag,” not to provide easy answers but to incite critical thought among an apathetic populace. It has the feel of a whistleblower’s account; the reader almost feels ashamed, even voyeuristic, to be given this kind of “insider access” to the process...
...Israeli researchers' downplaying of the importance of mysterious bones found at Qumran near the Dead Sea [SCIENCE, Aug. 6] is reminiscent of the Vatican's dismissive reaction to the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices, a set of significant scrolls found before the Dead Sea Scrolls. By rejecting the idea that the bones might be those of Jesus, the Israeli experts may be seeking to protect prevailing religious doctrines. Indeed, your article closes with the sentence "To keep on the right side of the rabbis, the Israeli archaeologists say they have already reburied the bones." I would add that their...
First-generation technology, you'll recall, allowed homemakers to call their partners on the way home from work to nag them to pick up the dry cleaning. (It succeeded zero-generation: yelling real loud.) That begat 2G, which most of us use, though rarely to its full potential, which includes text messaging and sending smiley faces to classmates. (DoCoMo became a renewed symbol of Japanese tech prowess by popularizing those features, especially with the young, through its i-mode service.) 3G is an exponential jump, allowing one to do pretty much anything a PC can, anywhere. Its hype was such...