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by Jean M. Twenge Jean M. Twenge has been writing about generational differences for 25 years, producing bestsellers like Generation Me and The Narcissism Epidemic . In her latest book, Twenge zeroes in on iGen, the kids born in 1995 and later who have grown up with smartphones, had an Instagram page before they started high school and do not remember a time before the internet. The average teen checks her phone more than 80 times a day. The oldest iGen-ers, as she calls them, were early adolescents when the iPhone was introduced in 2007 and high school students when the iPad entered the market in 2010. Twenge argues the complete dominance of the smartphone among teens has had ripple effects across every area of iGen-er lives, from their social interactions to their mental health. Twenge draws on national surveys of 11 million Americans, conducted since 1960, to reach her conclusions. From about 2012, she started seeing "large, abrupt shifts in teens' behaviour and emoti...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Police in Richmond are investigating after one woman was found shot to death inside a vehicle and another wounded at an apartment complex in the city’s southside Thursday night . At around 10:40 p.m., police were called to 220 Green Cove Drive at the Blue Ridge Estates apartment complex . Once there, they found one woman who had been shot in the leg and another woman dead inside a vehicle. The woman inside the vehicle, who has been identified as 33-year-old Karen A. Turner of North Chesterfield, was suffering from an apparent gunshot wound and pronounced dead at the scene. The Medical Examiner will determine a cause and manner of death. The female victim who had been shot was transported to a local hospital with non- life threatening injuries . Family members say the beauty shop Turner owned , SewIns Express, was doing so well that she had plans of expanding into North Carolina. Her talent for hair of some heavy-hitting artists in the entertainment industry, ...