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...colonial times everyone had to "wean modest and sober habit." "Strange ruffian like new langled fashions," including gold and silver were strictly prohibited...
...addict, Scott R. Panzer '88, who owns what he calls a "I rash-80," said that he outgrew the video games habit in eleventh grade. "Before I was a social misfit," he said. "As I started to have a better time sociality, I stopped using the computer...
...fellow who refuses to look you in the eye may be lying, but they may instead be fidgety truth tellers who are afraid of being accused of deceit. The person who rubs his nose every 30 seconds may be dissembling, or he may simply be displaying a lifelong nervous habit. Diplomats, natural performers and pathological liars are often impossible to read. Says Ekman: "We live in a probabilistic world. You're only going to make an estimate." (Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler, Ekman believes, was good at lying because of his ability to hide his emotions. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
...fresh strawberries in December, laughing "it's just a little treat." Princess Margaret routinely kept the staff up to 3 or 4 a.m. until the Queen intervened, since they all had to be up at 7. But there are occasional moments of compassion: "Charles himself has often broken Royal habit by sometimes bathing the children," Barry notes. However, Charles' interest in child-rearing came in part because Diana had fired the longtime Royal Nanny...
...notable philanthropist, mostly to medical research, and a gifted inventor who held more than 2,000 patents; of congestive heart failure; in Princeton, N.J. Born in Russia and reared in Paris until at ten he moved to the U.S., Spanel was probably best known to the public for his habit of regularly buying newspaper space, at a cost of millions over four decades, to promote his beliefs, notably world unity, support for Israel and understanding for France...