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For working adults with elderly parents showing signs of dementia and other aging issues, the choices seem equally difficult: Quit their jobs to help the parent, hire someone else to do the same, or consider assisted living or a nursing home. Increasingly, people in this position are turning to adult day centers, which like their equivalents for pre-schoolers offer recreation, socialization, and mental stimulation during the daytime.
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When he made his first appearance decades ago, G.I. Joe was a normal-sized guy, dressed in camouflage and toting a rifle. Today, Joe is so bulked up he looks like he could single-handedly hoist a tank to change its tread. Such changes reflect a cultural shift in the idealized male body that is having consequences for the boys playing with Joe and other action figures, says faculty member Dr. Mia Holland.

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