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...Social Sciences. A survey taken last January of seven major Chinese cities found that among those 14 to 20, the average age of first sexual experience was 17.4, while those 31 to 40 had lost their virginity much later, at 24.1 years old. Says Fu Zhen, 28, a teacher in Shanghai: "My parents' only entertainment came from revolutionary movies, so they were very conservative about sex. My generation, we see everything from everywhere, and we are hungry for new experiences." As if to underline the point, Fu has adopted the nickname Carrie?as in Bradshaw, of Sex and the City...
...artist. Unlike his celebrated compatriots Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros, who painted public murals on a heroic scale, Covarrubias made his name in the humble medium of the caricature. He arrived in New York at age 18 (after dropping out of high school when he cracked a teacher's skull in a fit of anger), and found fame and a good living almost immediately with his witty, irreverent ink portraits for glossy magazines such as the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. By 1930, when he married Rosemonde Cowan, a popular Broadway dancer and choreographer, he was a fixture in Manhattan...
...going to miss that, miss the audience,” he said. “When you’re a teacher, you have an audience, built in, whether you like it or not. I know I’ll miss that...
...graduate of the college, Haggerty immediately made the transition from athlete (he had three NCAA qualifying times in the 440-yard hurdles as an undergraduate) to assistant coach, a position he held for the three years following commencement. The next decade involved a long stint as a high school teacher, with a few years in and out of Harvard mixed in. Eventually, in 1982, Haggerty took over as head coach of both the men’s and women’s track and cross-country programs. In doing so, he became the first head coach of both the men?...
...entire life, Haggerty has been around schools—as a student, a coach, a teacher, or some combination of the three. It will be that atmosphere, that aura of learning and teaching that will be most difficult for him to leave behind...