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...feel the same pressures as their parents do: to succeed financially, to maintain their health, to stay on society's good side. What's more, adolescents will field these pressures using their elders' traditional techniques: spending money, taking medication, contracting for professional advice. The carefree years will become the prudent years, and the prudent years will continue throughout life. That's how it used to be, in the 19th century, and that's how it will be again in the 21st. The age of James Dean, the Ford Mustang and making out will seem, in retrospect, like what...
...Reno, who stated emotionally last week that Elian "should be with his father" and upheld the INS ruling. But she went limp on the critical issue of how to carry it out. Instead, she asked Elian's kin to "work together" to resolve that question. She sounded at once prudent and naive. This family feud "has become a canona," warns University of Miami sociologist Max Castro, using a Cuban term for bullying. "It's not some gentlemen's disagreement...
Verba said in the University Library announcement that "a prudent 'watchful waiting' is our most viable--indeed, our only--alternative...
Pagett says the task force was a "prudent measure" on the part of the administration, following the scandal in Russia...
...makes no sense to overreact to the prospect of global warming, but it makes no sense to ignore it either. A prudent policy that stresses conservation and alternate energy sources seems to me to be wise insurance in an uncertain age. After all, our grandchildren will thank us for developing high-mileage cars, energy-efficient appliances and cheap solar energy, no matter how the future of global warming plays...