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Life is a series of preparations. As a toddler, you prepare for preschool. Preschool prepares you for elementary school, which prepares you for high school, which prepares you for college, which ultimately prepares you for work in the “real world” and the abstract notion of life. What's next? Retirement. Then death. This is the general trend of life...
Even more jarring is the Israeli conception of maturation—the process of becoming “independent adults” that we are told will be so challenging before freshman year—is entirely different from what people see as maturation elsewhere. I felt like a toddler in the presence of friends and relatives who were my age or just a few years older. Since graduating high school, Israeli youngsters have completed basic training, learned to fire a gun, and some even patrolled the streets of the West Bank. Others fought in a war and seen brothers...
...stork cradle," earlier this month, an unexpectedly large package arrived. The new service consists of a small hatch facing the outside of the building where desperate parents could safely and discreetly leave unwanted infants. But nobody was expecting to see a three-year-old deposited in the hatch. The toddler reportedly told doctors at the hospital in the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto that "I came with Daddy," and knew his own name, which enabled authorities to identify the father...
...fair resembles his previous occupation, driving and manning guns on a Stryker armored vehicle in Mosul, Iraq. No matter: what he needs is a paycheck with benefits, his first full-time job since separating from the Army in April 2006. He's 25. He's living with his toddler son and pregnant wife in her parents' house. He's getting way too friendly with his Xbox. It's go time...
...green colors of Mexico on his trunks; his corner men wore T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Mayweather Loves Mexico." Meanwhile De La Hoya, the "Golden Boy" the superstar who grew up in impoverished East Los Angeles and now lives with his pop-star wife and their toddler son in a 12-room mansion on the outskirts of San Juan, Puerto Rico, burnished his squeaky image of dedicated family man, budding business mogul (his Golden Boy Promotions co-promoted the bout) and sweet science philosopher: "When you have a good soul it makes you a better fighter." Thirty-year...