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Several clients referred by Harris are willing to defend the program publicly. Sharon Adams, 39, says she prostituted herself for 12 years to pay for crack and bore 14 children--eight of them born addicted. Now drug free and working as a pizza-delivery driver, she says, "This program isn't forcing anybody to do anything." Sherry Golding, 29, a former methamphetamine addict who struggled to regain custody of her three children, says the $200 she got to have her tubes tied was "a lifesaver. It helped me get my life together...
...long division. What's new here is the vast scale. In the long run, Kasparov vs. the World may tell us more about chess and human thought processes than Deep Blue ever could. "The result is irrelevant," says Kasparov, himself a part-time computer scientist and Internet addict. "It's a big experiment...
...hair--were outshone by the bright glint in their eyes. And Reich was quickly outdone by student speaker Fred McLemore, 34, whose natty gray suit and mustard bow tie were at odds with his story. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and became a homeless crack addict. With his last dollar, he came to the shelter two years ago. Now he leaves with an internship-cum-job in computers. "My boss is here, and she wants to hire me, and I'm going!" he said, to the roar of the crowd...
...they say they're not jealous of their Harvard counterparts. Indeed, they believe they have an advantage. "I'm turned around and could be headed toward Harvard," says reformed crack addict Howard James, 40. "But one turn for them--loss of a job, alcoholism--they could be coming to Pine Street...
With a box of tissues beside him, Eustace Hall, a retired medical technologist from Brandon, Fla., broke down and cried. A confessed mail-order-sweepstakes addict, Hall, 65, said he has spent at least $15,000 on contests since 1992 trying to help put his daughter through law school. "After all the time and money I spent, I have nothing to show for it," he admitted...