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...questions from the first survey--including whether they wake up in the morning thinking about tanning and whether they get annoyed when others tell them to tan less--the researchers concluded that 26% qualified as being addicted to tanning behavior. When the second survey--the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for substance abuse--was used, that number jumped...
What was your online experience? I dated online for about two years and met my current husband. The first time I saw him, I just knew he was it. We were on matchmaker.com He had the most criteria that reflected my answers to the questionnaire. I'll be darned if that computer wasn't exactly right. We like the same movies. We like the same books. It was almost like separated at birth...
...that money is coming from someone's pockets, and it's not the winners'. According to Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling, as many as 10 million U.S. adults meet the "problem gambling" criteria. Kids are hit even harder. Exact figures aren't easy to come by, but various studies place the rate of problem gambling among underage players somewhere between two and three times the rate for adults...
...million drug-diversion campaign is also under attack by state officials. In a stinging 10-page critique issued last March, 32 state attorneys general, led by Oklahoma's Drew Edmondson, charged that the agency's proposed criteria for investigations would force severely ill patients to make frequent, unnecessary doctor visits, thus increasing both their hardship and their co-payments. "DEA is creating a climate that ... discourages good practice," they wrote. Tandy met with a delegation of attorneys general in April to reassure them that "the last thing DEA wants to do is to chill the legitimate prescription of pain medications...
...doctors and dentists of the missing, and compare it to their own postmortem findings from victims' bodies, clothing and personal effects. All bodies are photographed, X-rayed and visually examined; some undergo a full autopsy. The most reliable clues to a dead person's identity are known as primary criteria - fingerprints, dental records, DNA or implanted medical devices marked with a serial number. DNA matching is the gold standard; it requires comparison between DNA from human remains and that found, say, on a hairbrush or toothbrush belonging to the missing person, or with a close relative's DNA. The family...