Word: diversionism
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Take the Great Depression of the 1930s. While attendance at U.S. baseball and football fixtures slumped, the games' following through newspapers and radio took off. Stories of gritty players overcoming adversity to triumph on the field were printed "almost ad nausea," says Crepeau. From the economic misery, heroes offered a...
Berryline, as you might guess from the name, is a Pinkberry knockoff that has cornered the market for low-cal froyo in the Square. It doesn’t quite stand up to the nuanced taste of the major chains’ product (it’s a little creamier...
A spokesperson for Chernoff's office says Murray was not in the office but in Nevada. Murray has another practice in Las Vegas. According to Szeleczky, the search included members of DEA's tactical-diversion unit, which looks into "doctors' and pharmacists' use of controlled prescription drugs." She declined to...
We seem wired to attack our hair under traumatic conditions, possibly because forcibly extracting hair is painful; it can divert attention from stress to the more immediate matter of how to solve a pressing problem. For chronic hair pullers, that diversion turns into addictive psychological relief. Some people with trichotillomania...
As for Michael Jackson's reigning final show - Tuesday's world-televised memorial - cost estimates came in significantly less than expected. But the question remains: who's going to pick up the tab? The city of Los Angeles spent about $1.4 million on all aspects of the memorial, city officials...