Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...typical adult needs about eight hours of shut-eye a night to function effectively. By that standard, millions of Americans are chronically sleep deprived, trying to get by on six hours or even less. In many households, cheating on sleep has become an unconscious and pernicious habit. "In its mild form, it's watching Ted Koppel and going to bed late and then getting up early to get to the gym," says Cornell's Pollak. In extreme cases people stay up most of the night, seeing how little sleep will keep them going. They try to compensate by snoozing late...
...Porsches and Volkswagens that cruise the empty streets after dark. Scabs cover her arms from shooting heroin; her skin is pale, her body thin, her eyes puffy and tired looking, though she is only 18. Alice spends hundreds of dollars a day on her drug habit. "I shoot up as often as I can," she says, her legs twitching from the effect of the narcotic. "Practically everything I make I spend on drugs." She has no home and sleeps in other people's apartments. "This isn't the life I want to lead. I have no friends. I have...
...Beat's clients are female; some have up to 20 clients a night. "The girls out here work; they buy drugs; they sleep; they are like robots," says Mary, 31, a cherub-faced woman who walks the streets in order to support her own and her mother's crack habit. Most work for very little money. "Sometimes they go for a trick for $2 for a hit of crack because they are hurting," says Daniel Zayas, 32, Street Beat field supervisor. And then there are the constant dangers. So far 17 of Street Beat's clients have been killed...
...habit of responding to letters to the editors. But in this case, we believe we must. The reader's argument, in its beguiling simplicity, contains all of the follies of the Cold War and the tragedy in Vietnam wrapped up into two sentences. This reader wants America to follow blindly our fearless leader for Realpolitik reasons. George Bush would love that. But the the U.S. should never plunge into war without debating it in a national forum. Obviously, Bush thinks he's right. But that is no reason for Congress to forfeit its Constitutional prerogative to question the president...
...wouldn't be annoyed with if you had to spend two hours with." To induce Culkin to learn his lines, Columbus rewarded him with a game of Nintendo after each day of rehearsal in the Chicago studio where the picture was shot. Culkin was also entranced by Columbus' working habit of moving around the huge sound stage on roller skates...