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That was an obvious reference to New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, who said in his autobiography that golf helped him kick a drug habit. Taylor subsequently tested positive a second time and was suspended for 30 days. A third positive test, like Washington's Dexter Manley's last season, results in a lifetime suspension...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NFL Denies Charges of Drug Use by QBs | 1/26/1990 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Back to Two Goalies | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Can Drugs Cure Drug Addiction? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marriage to The Bitter End | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Michelle M. Shih, | Title: UHS Distributes Gum, Candy in 13th Smokeout | 11/17/1989 | See Source »

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