• But if you tell parents in a neighbourhood that their children attend a school that is turning out badly-educated graduates without skills needed in the adult world, it sounds like an attack on their offspring.

    ECONOMIST: Fixing British education

  • Everything one does in the adult social media world goes down on one's permanent record.

    CNN: Yahoo wants Tumblr's teens

  • Unfortunately this is also one vice where the U.S. is near to the top of the lists, as America now has the highest adult obesity rate in the developed world at 34%, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).

    FORBES: Top Countries For Vices

  • The Internet, which in effect brings the world's adult bookstores and video shops to home computers, is following the same pattern.

    ECONOMIST: Electronic commerce

  • Nevertheless, there had been very little progress in the world of adult education until the middle of the twentieth century.

    UNESCO: Reading for a Billion: Same Language Subtitling

  • His role at the Roslin Institute in cloning Dolly the sheep, the world's first clone from an adult cell, led to an OBE in 1999 and he has been elected a fellow of five scientific academies worldwide.

    BBC: Dolly the sheep creator knighted

  • His role in cloning Dolly the sheep, the world's first clone from an adult cell, led to an OBE in 1999 and he has been elected to five scientific academies worldwide.

    BBC: Dolly creator heads Scots honours

  • The first theme, published in June 2007, found that adult anxieties about the modern world were curtailing children's freedom to play with friends.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • The '59 Sound was recorded in two weeks, and much of it captures the moment when the renegade in his late teen years bumps into the responsibilities of the adult world for the first time.

    NPR: The Gaslight Anthem: Revisiting Sounds Of '59

  • Afghanistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world- only about one out of 10 adult women in Afghanistan are able to read and write- a daunting figure that affects the family environment and most importantly the education of children.

    UNESCO: Changing the path of life

  • Barrie created a figure not unlike himself, a ghost child who, in constant flight from adult responsibility and loss, takes up residence in the world of his own imagination.

    NEWYORKER: A Little Night Magic

  • Parents and educators failed to prepare them for adult life in the cold harsh world, and where they must compete for gainful employment.

    FORBES: A "Generation of Sissies"

  • But you'd do all that under expert adult supervision and in the protected world of childhood, where the impact of your inevitable failures would be blunted.

    WSJ: What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?

  • Among the fall hopefuls, collectively touted as the season's most promising slate by many in the ad world: Gossip Girl, an adaptation of the popular young adult novels from The O.

    FORBES: CW's Sophomore Year

  • William, whose adventures spanned the 1920s to the 1960s, escapes the tedium of parental control in the company of his gang, the Outlaws, with whom he schemes against the adult world.

    ECONOMIST: Naughty children

  • In 2000, the countries of the world agreed to halve adult literacy by 2015.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • Type 2 diabetes, which is also called adult onset diabetes, is a growing problem in the Western world and is most common in the overweight and the obese.

    CNN: Do vitamins help against type 2 diabetes?

  • It connects you to the adult world, which is crucial when you're living in one that treats you like a no-good teenager.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Our adult interests are those best pursued in the cool, dark places of the world: We are film dorks, comic-book geeks, fantasy-lit fans, indie-music nerds.

    NPR: Summer Reads for Former Recess Rebels

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