Word: habitability
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...painful. No one is quite sure just what starts the swelling, but heredity seems to play an important role. Says Dr. Norman Nigro, chief of colon and rectal surgery at Detroit's Wayne State University: "Hemorrhoids run in families. People inherit veins that are apt to become dilated." Habit may also be a factor, including the "bathroom as library" syndrome. Explains Los Angeles Proctologist Michael Freilich: "We were not meant to sit on toilets, we were meant to squat in the field." The American diet is also a culprit. Heavy on processed foods, light on fiber for bulk...
...Burke's unrequited tally proved to be the first example of the icemen's game-long habit of handing back momentum previously discarded by Brown. "Give and take" turned into "give and give back", and a minute and a half later Bruins Bob Free and Jim Bennett scored 14 seconds apart for a 3-1 Brown margin...
...decade." Wolfe's term has been useful, but anyone who imagines that it is definitive has swallowed a dose of glib chic whole. The discovery of the insuperable self-centeredness of human nature did not await the '70s. Neither did the national habit of self-improvement, which was going strong when Public Man Ben Franklin was its high priest. Broadly, the premise of the "me decade" view is that great numbers of people are disdaining society to pursue existence as narcissistic massage buffs, om-sayers, encounter groupies and peacocks. The type is to be found, true...
Though typically American, convention fever is contagious. Europeans are picking up the convention habit (though Asians largely have not). And with the cheapening of the once-mighty dollar, foreigners are starting to find it attractive to meet here...
...debatable whether all the alchemy doe:s much more than remind customers to cleanse their skin thoroughly and regularly-a good habit, like brushing the teeth. At the very least the treatments massage the psyche. Says Arpel's Newman: "We're cheaper than a psychiatrist, we're more fun, we'll listen to all the problems you want to tell us, and you'll come out looking a whole lot better...