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Then again, maybe it's the electronic equivalent of a crackhead lighting up in a Denny's rest room. JUNIOR AN ADDICT? a USA Today story on video games once asked. Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey dubbed such kids "Nintendo zombies." The threat is clear: Nintendo may be enchanting too well...
...self-described "health care addict," Blumenthal says his experience as a member of the review group has so far been "enlightening...
...reply from musicians? Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll! At least for them. "If it's not your bag, don't get into it," says Robinson of the Black Crowes. "((But)) would ((French writer)) Jean Cocteau have been as good if he hadn't been an opium addict?" Maybe not. Then again, he might have been better...
...Orleans, and all you have to do is toss the ball through the 18-in. hoop that now seems a mile off. The crowd of 6,600 is chanting your name. Your wife's counting on you, thinking about a little red sports car. Your son, the Nintendo addict, wants a new computer. You'd love some cash for your daughter's college education and to buy a tractor for yourself. And maybe, just maybe, you could quit your $32,000-a-year job as a pipe fitter...
...graduate student friend who, as it happens, is also a recovering alcoholic and also gay. I had come out slowly and painfully over a three-year period after college. By that time I had been combating my loneliness with heavy drinking for so long that I had become an addict. As a result, even after I accepted my homosexuality, I continued to drink heavily for another six years, wrecking my performance in law school and making me even more miserable. My friend came out only after law school, at age 30 but in other ways his story was essentially...