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...tend to excerpt it in their authorized video compilations), but it offers the longest glimpse of Southern onscreen. Shaggy and stoned, he dallies with what appears to be a powder as he declares "Cocaine's so expensive that I don't think it's possible to develop a habit." The camera swerves away at two intervals during his sequence - filmmaker Robert Frank tended to do this when his subjects were "indulging...
Hobart and Smith sociology professor H. Wesley Perkins, who conducted the 1996 study, was intrigued by these findings. If teenagers--conformers by temperament--believe drinking is rampant on campus, might they be more inclined to pick up the habit? If on the other hand, they knew that the heavy drinkers were not in the majority, might moderation suddenly seem more attractive...
Nairobi Calling It's automatic. You pick up the phone, punch a few buttons and the call goes through. Most times I bet you don't even think about the mechanics of using the phone - like driving a familiar route home from work, it's simply a habit. You certainly don't congratulate yourself on getting through when you hear a friend or colleague at the other end of the line. Why should you? Phones just work. Or at least they do in some parts of the world...
Republicans, of course, take offense at the characterization. "That demagoguery and class-warfare rhetoric is pure nonsense," says Republican whip Nickles. "Low-income taxpayers get immediate relief retroactively. Some people are just throwing arrows and playing class warfare because they do it out of habit, not out of knowledge of the bill...
...Every underage alcoholic has a story - of drinking to fit in or to escape the pressures of adolescence, of lying, cheating and stealing to feed the habit. Many were straight A students. Others dropped out of school and ran away from home. Alcoholism ran in some families; in others, parents were unable to believe that alcohol could be the cause of their 13, 14 or 15-year-olds' problems. Moral: It can happen to anyone...