Word: habitating
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Unhealthy Habit...
...college binge drinking can put students at a greater risk of long-term alcohol abuse because it creates a habit that can lead to alcoholism. An ongoing dependency could lead to greater health consequences later in life...
...course, the individualism to which we have grown accustomed will probably become a lifelong habit. Now we rush from a seminar, to the library, to a meeting, to a party, to another meeting--there are a lot of meetings here. Someday soon we will run from the boardroom, to the gym, to day care, to the PTA meetings--and end up at the shrink...
...gene is active in women who don't smoke, especially relative to nonsmoking men, it's even more active in women who do." And while a woman's risk for lung cancer declines steadily for years after she quits smoking, this study underscores the risk of picking up the habit for any length of time: Women tend to develop lung cancer at alarming rates even after minimal exposure to cigarette smoke...
...perfect fable for our time: HAL recast as a billion tiny bugs, his omnipotent malevolence replaced by our own innocent oversight. Technology had become so all-encompassing and incomprehensible, the fable began, that we had unwittingly lost control of it. So the smallest thing, our human habit of hiply referring to years by the last two digits, was going to topple this electronic pack of cards, sending planes crashing to the ground, nukes leaping from their silos, electricity to a standstill and all of humanity back to a time much earlier than the 1900 our computers would believe...