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...estimated 10 million alcoholics, and a growing number of them belong to the younger age brackets. West Paces Ferry Hospital in Atlanta reports that the average age of people coming in for treatment dropped from 49 to 39 in the past decade. A study showed that 70% of Georgia's eighth- graders had used alcohol, and one expert estimates that the state had 45,000 teen alcoholics. One of every five freshmen at the University of Minnesota admits to being a heavy drinker, which is twice the rate found in 1975. A survey of 1,200 students in fraternities...
tempt to identify students who belong in the course using results from a newly developed diagnostic test along with writing samples from admissions applications...
Sexual politics belong more to Blue and Eli than director Roth. To be fair, women aren't the only characters in Heartbrakers that get superficial treatment: everyone does, because the script is thin and the dialogue occasionally strained. But Roth is a very talented visual director, and once the characters have been introduced in the crupric first half hour, the atmosphere and psychological action are compelling...
Witness Jack's seemingly innocent chore of taking out the Gladney garbage: Was this ours? Did it belong to us? I took the bag out to the garage and emptied it. The compressed bulk sat there like an ironic modern sculpture, massive, squat, mocking ... I picked through it item by item, mass by shapeless mass, wondering why I felt guilty, a violator of privacy, uncovering intimate and perhaps shameful secrets. Why did I feel like a household spy? Is garbage so private? Does it glow at the core with personal heat, with signs of one's deepest nature, clues...
...other end are people who feel so overwhelmed by the normal stimulation of everyday life that they devote themselves to avoiding any further stress, risk or adventure. This avoidance group would include those who are comfortable with routine, and perhaps agoraphobics. Farley thinks schizophrenics and the autistic might belong in the non-T category as well, although available evidence is inconclusive...