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Secrets of the Teen Brain Thank you for your insightful article, "What Makes Teens Tick" [May 31]. Those of us who are attempting to parent offspring in the teen years can firmly attest to the mystifying ways of the adolescent mind. The child you have loved and nurtured for years suddenly morphs into an exasperating stranger! Research showing that teen brains are not fully developed mature organs but continue to undergo structural changes up to age 25 is truly a relief for those of us who have agonized over a teenager's predilection for risk taking, impulsive behavior and overriding...
...federal law against overspending its budget - part of the problem stems from technology flaws with the agency's financial management system. Turner wrote that his staff's interviews with ICE employees had turned up claims such as funds being transferred on a daily basis to ICE from its parent DHS agency to avoid shortfalls; ICE pilots going months without knowing when or if they could get new parts, fuel or ammunition for their airplanes; and ICE often having no idea how much it had spent on various contracts, requiring employees to ask the contractors for the information. Dean Boyd...
Executives at the MTV networks stood and roared their approval at a budget meeting last November when Sumner Redstone, chairman and CEO of parent company Viacom, pledged $30 million of corporate cash to launch Logo, a gay channel that the MTV brass had regarded as a top priority. Under Viacom president and heir apparent Mel Karmazin, the channel had been delayed. But at this meeting, attended by Karmazin, Redstone openly said to MTV chief Tom Freston, "You want to do it? You have the money." Karmazin was silent. "It was a dramatic moment," Freston recalls. "All of a sudden...
...Many students who come here had a plan,” he says. “It may have come from a professional, it may have come from a parent, it may have come from themselves or some combination—but there was a series of things one did in order to get to Harvard. The downside of that is as much as we see variations in how one got to Harvard, you all look and say whatever linear plan you had worked...
...child who's overweight as a teenager has an 80% chance of being overweight as an adult, so preventing obesity--with family meals that instill good eating habits and family outings that involve plenty of activity--is a parent's best bet. But what if you've lost that bet? What if your child is one of the 30% of kids who are either overweight or "at risk"? How can you turn the tide without making him or her more miserable, more resentful of you and more obsessed with eating, or, just as perilous, not eating? Here are some pointers...