Akhil Rekulapelli has his life mapped out.
"On our life map," he says, his father drew "a bright circle around 12 through 18.
We wanted to hit Dumbo, the newest point on the Brooklyn night life map.
MAP: On the "Life" map, lower scores, represented in red here, mean shorter life expectancy at birth.
"The old life map," she said, "was that you retired at 65 and sat in a rocking chair and disengaged from life around you.
Kennan's life maps right onto twentieth-century political history, and no one is better qualified than Gaddis to lead the way through it.
"Think about it, when a person gets out of college they've literally had their life mapped out for them," up to that point, Ms. Lord said.
After Manchester University she had her life mapped out: she was booked on an MA in drama and psychology that would lead to work in schools helping children with special needs.
At a time when many Americans are struggling to glimpse much past the next paycheck or layoff notice, "forever" connotes the long-view perspective, the life mapped out, the sense of a future that can be seen and grasped.
2004 "To a pregnant 14-year-old struggling to grasp what's happening, a senior student with a whole life mapped out or a mother already failing to cope under difficult circumstances, abortion is the easy way out.
