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...resistance. It's hard to pay a stranger to cart away a computer you bought for $2,000. Yet by the time you're ready to part with that machine, it's often so obsolete that no school or charity will take it. If you put it on the curb with the trash, however, it will end up in a landfill, where toxins could leach into the soil...
Henry Wechsler, director of the Harvard School of Public Health's College Alcohol Study, says it is the responsibility of the University to curb the behaviors associated with binge drinking...
...Downey's second trip to jail - just last August he was granted early release after a judge sentenced him to a year for probation violations. Since 1996, Downey's been arrested numerous times on drug-related charges, and has gone through countless drug treatment programs. None of it helped curb his self-destructive tendencies. "It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and my finger's on the trigger," Downey told a judge in 1999. "And I like the taste of the gunmetal...
...wild man in his military days, and later as an opposition leader with virtually no experience in managing Israel's complex political and diplomatic situation, both regional and global. But power, particularly when it comes in the diluted form that Sharon will likely inherit, is likely to curb his more aggressive instincts. Still, Sharon is a wily operator, and he plans to try and prove that he's more capable of making peace than Barak. Long-term observers of the region wouldn't be at all surprised if Sharon begins by making some dramatic gesture toward the Palestinians, such...
...cold at all," claims Alex Donovan, 16, as she steps over a snowy New York City curb while wearing Tevas. Extreme-sports enthusiast Dave Lynford, 19, says baring your toes to the elements "is no big deal." Kathryn Smith, who sells shoes in New York, says summer footwear is selling way past the traditional season, and attributes the trend "partially to the extreme-sports craze--it's part of the uniform for these kids." Another lure may be TV shows like Ally McBeal, where the stars bare lots of skin even on cold Boston nights. (Never mind that the show...