spring up. It suddenly became possible to move beyond a parochial con -
cern with aging in the United States to a focus on aging as a universal
human process. Would the patterns of stability and change that we sawin American adults be found in South Korea, or T urkey , or Russia?Longitudinal studies in these countries would be ideal, but in the mean -
time the instant gratification of cross-sectional research seemed very
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