Word: addicting
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...From the beginning, Jerry Lee was an apostle, an addict to music: inhaling all kinds, then reproducing and blending it on the family piano, where he would do his little boogie-woogie every day. As Tosches writes: "The child sang in church, and he sang along with his daddy's old records, and he sang along with the children of the black sharecroppers who lived nearby. And sometimes, when he was singing by himself, thinking that no one could hear him, he mixed it all together. ... Whatever he heard, he swallowed it, then he spat it out on that...
...full-length animated movies. Kim Possible is a new, original series starring a red-headed high school cheerleader who saves the world when she’s not in class. These cartoons are meant to target kids six to 14 years old, but I proudly admit to being an addict...
...corner dealers. Recently, a casual request for Alprax tablets was greeted without a blink by a New Delhi pharmacist. The cost: 50 for a strip of 10 0.25-mg tablets. Another chemist was reluctant at first, but he relented. "You don't look the sort that might be an addict," he said. Neither recorded the name of the prescribing doctor as required...
...spent on programs for disadvantaged youth like Job Corps, society saves about $2 from increased productivity and lower costs related to crime and welfare. Jessica Collins, 21, had been making $6.50 an hour at McDonald's when, she says, she started selling drugs to make more money. Then an addict tried to trade her his daughter for a bag of cocaine, and Collins was shocked into going straight. She enrolled in a yearlong Job Corps program in Edinburgh, Ind., in which she learned to operate heavy equipment. Last week she started an apprenticeship that pays $15 an hour. "Job Corps...
Danny himself now becomes a dead sea; no visible emotion roils his surface. He appears at first to have become a meth addict, but that's mere pretense. So is his work as a police informer. All his activities are secretly aimed at finding his wife's killers. His neo-noir trail is violent (particularly when he encounters Vincent D'Onofrio's deeply scary druglord) and, occasionally, rather disturbingly funny...