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...rugby team as his extracurricular commitments. “I’m not going to lie,” he says, “[politics] has been on my mind. The older you get, the more you think about how what you do is going to affect your future...
Schlanger also said that some states, including Massachusetts, impose more stringent penalties for dealing drugs near schools—and that such laws affect mostly minorities, since a larger percentage of minorities live in urban areas, and thus near schools, than whites...
League and Tournament Standing—In the three sports mentioned, final standings in league or conference tournaments only matter as far as they affect the previously stated criteria. A win is a win, no matter the conference ramifications...
Moreover, there is precedent for normal behaviors such as sleep being transmogrified into disease. A good example is Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which according to some psychiatrists, may affect 15 million Americans. This disease, which was originally called ADD, entered the American Psychiatric Association’s list of disorders only in 1980. Within in a decade, Ritalin became the favored drug to treat this disorder, and both the disease and the drug became wildly popular. But the enormous numbers of children taking the drug suggest that the normal exuberance of childhood has been declared treatable. Studies...
...didn’t really affect anything,” Potts said. “It was like last weekend. You just need to know there are more races ahead...