Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard hockey Coach Bill Cleary is a creature of habit. And one of his recently established traditions is the strict two-goalie rotation of sophomores Chuckie Hughes and Allain...
...dramatically. While methadone may wean half of those treated from cocaine, buprenorphine could slash the number of coke abusers to almost nil, says Yale researcher Thomas Kosten. A Harvard study of rhesus monkeys habituated to using coke found that daily doses of buprenorphine led the monkeys to kick the habit completely...
...habit of discontent has been the engine driving their lives. And the only thing left to be discontented about is contentedness. Suddenly Barbara can't stand the way Oliver chews his food. Or his insistence on correcting the details when she tries to tell dinner-party stories. When he suffers what at first looks like a heart attack -- it turns out to be a hiatal hernia -- she cannot quite make it to the emergency room to fake anxiety and sympathy. That night, she proposes separation...
Students and faculty picked up the packets for the Smokeout, an effort to persuade smokers to quit their habit for a day, in the lobby of Holyoke Center and in locations at the Law School, the Medical School and the Business School, organizers said...
...most-fit groups, which included people in the habit of running up to 40 miles a week, death rates tended to be lower still, but the improvement was not so dramatic. In short, says Carl Caspersen, a physical-activity epidemiologist at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "You don't have to be a marathoner to greatly reduce your mortality. After that first jump in activity, you're not buying that much more reduced risk...