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Author Beth Teitell has decided to take on the malady that often afflicts American women: "Fear of looking our age." Teitell, who is 47 ("the youngest I'll ever be again in my life") and writes regularly for the Boston Globe, spent a year exploring the American obsession with youth - the Botox Industrial Complex - for her new book, Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth (William Morrow). TIME Reporter Andrea Sachs caught up with Teitell by phone at her home in Boston...
...Spirit employee argued at the counter, the airline delayed her original flight because of weather and pushed back scheduled boarding. Still, the employee told Carol there was simply nothing she could do, even after Carol explained that she had no food or formula for her grandchildren - the youngest of whom has Down syndrome...
...York Public Library puts the question very succinctly: “What exactly is reading?” In an age in which information technology and even the use of paper are rapidly transforming, this question is less obvious than it sounds. If, as seems evident now, this youngest generation of Americans will reach maturity in an unpredictably advanced technological landscape, one with unprecedented levels of connectivity and functionality, who is to say that their method learning will resemble that of the past, or even our own, in any very precise way? Now is hardly the time to insist...
...youngest, least patient, and most spoiled member of my family, I saw it as my prerogative—my duty even—to vocalize all displeasures and frustrations as often as possible. Take an easy coming-of-age task like swallowing a pill for example—this eluded my single-digit-self like rocket science...
...crucial involvement, this complex light show—which mimicked tripping on hallucinogenic drugs and accompanied a concert performed by The Velvet Underground and Nico—was attributed to Williams’ lover, Warhol. “Imagine you’re in your 20s, the sexiest, youngest, most creative, most productive, and most vibrant you’ll ever be,” Robinson says. “You move to New York to make art. You’re at the Factory, at the center of everything. And from then on everything you create is ascribed...