Word: addicting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trophy in Losing Isaiah, written by Naomi Foner and directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, is a black child whose drug-addict mother (Halle Berry) dumped him in a garbage can shortly after his birth. Now he is two-and the point of contention in a tug-of-love between the mother and the family that raised him. Isaiah plays as a court case, with evidence and arguments for each side. But in movie terms, the case is stacked against Lange: next to Berry's radiant youth, she looks sere and exhausted. It is one of those dares a maturing female star...
...school, falling in love with algebra and studying math on his own at home. He talks with his rabbi. In high school he has an affair with a drama teacher. Then he goes to college, learns a lot of physics, befriends another physics student who turns into a drug addict, goes to graduate school, learns more physics, finishes his doctorate and marries an artist. The marriage deteriorates, and the book ends...
...some legal experts doubt that the the Medicaid-reimbursement suits will be the decisive new weapon. Says Stephen Sugarman, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley: "My feeling is that a lot of these untried methods have a dubious likelihood of success." But as any nicotine addict knows, when people want to try to stop smoking, they're willing to try almost anything...
...inspired by columnist Cohen and Governor Allen, I come forward in a spirit of public service and self-loathing to admit my own sad story. I was a Minesweeper addict...
...fact: Not quite. According to the district's human-services department, there are currently 1,200 children in foster care, wards of the city because their parents neglected them. There are currently only nine "border babies," infants born to drug-addicted mothers unable to care for them. In just four well-publicized cases were kids actually placed in Dumpsters this year, which is shocking enough. Yet because of liberal policies, Gingrich said, "we say to a 13-year-old drug addict who's pregnant, 'Put your baby in the Dumpster; that...