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...fortysomething closet video-game addict, I'm not at all surprised by the features of the new Xbox. I'm no raging conservative moralist, but I am worried by the incredible darkness in the gaming world. Most current game designs (besides those of sports and auto-racing titles) are oppressively heavy and angst ridden. There is ceaseless marketing to the basest instincts of the 18-year-old-male psyche. I am concerned that my 10-year-old son is growing up in a world in which even previously lighthearted games now include blood splattering and bad language. Perhaps bringing...
...taking Paxil and Prozac," she says. "People said, 'You're handling this well,' and I'd say, 'That's the purpose of the medicine.' But I still worried. I would have panic attacks at night, not in front of the kids. I'd go sit in the closet...
...Atlanta. A witty Southerner who started and ran a successful business, she learned on a TV news show that her husband planned to divorce her. Later, under subpoena, she testified that he kept bundles of $100 bills, allegedly unreported donations, in a coat pocket in the couple's hall closet. Although he denied that and other charges, she turned over 77 of the bills from the stash, which she said she had often relied on to supplement her $50 a week allowance, and the Senate later denounced...
...When Melanie wanted to cut, she learned to find something else to do," says the father of a 20-year-old Two Brattle graduate. "She'd be stressed, and the next thing we'd know, she'd be cleaning her closet...
...that when she drops her son off at his house on Friday nights, she’s going to bartend. The hardest part is keeping it secret from her six-year-old, Rocky. She hides her work bag full of lingerie and sex toys in the back of her closet, worried that the mothers of Rocky’s friends will shun him if they learn about...