Articles Tagged with #growingup
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The Adolescent Scene
Dribbling in the Dark
What it’s like to be 14 in a new school, a new city away from home—and the wrong ethnicity in a divided country.
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Video
Go With the Flow
Whatever this is about, don’t worry about it. It is what it is. Just let it be whatever it is.
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Video
Drummers Can Now Drum the Undrummable
Attach sensors to drums and play samples through them and watch all hell break loose.
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Childhood Living
Symbolism for Beginners
For the next week, we’re highlighting some of our favorite works from 2015. In “Symbolism for Beginners,” wild horses lead to psychological and legal warfare.
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Gallery
Playground
Inspired by memories of his own childhood in the UK—part joy, part Lord of the Flies—a photographer studies playgrounds around the world.
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Personal Histories
The Limousine
Prom is a big night for many teenagers, full of firsts. First corsage. First big dance. Never mind first time in a limo—with disastrous results.
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The Night Desk
The End Isn’t the End
When insomnia and technological convenience collide, a lifetime of binge reading reaches its full potential.
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Culture Wars
The Dosa Gentrification
Indian culture is under siege by Westerners enamored with yoga, authenticity, and convenience. The dosa—a beloved, inconvenient tradition—could be next to fall.
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Education
You Never Forget
At 36, a schoolteacher learns how to ride a bicycle from his former student, who’s still struggling to succeed in school programs that value order above all else.
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Political Lives
Thoroughly Modern Marxism
A Marxist upbringing, graduating into a recession, and a lineage of missed opportunities make a brutal combination.
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Personal Histories
The Art of Swimming
Three near-drownings elucidate the wisdom of a 17th-century guide to swimming safety and technique.
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Personal Histories
Dear Daughter, Your Mom
Drawing inspiration from those who went before, and those still to come, in the waitress wars.