Word: habited
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...health experts, the people no one listened to during the heat wave, are telling a larger, darker story. The heat wave only made visible, they say, a crisis that had been under way for years: a chronically under-funded and understaffed elder care system combined with a national habit of shutting senior citizens out of sight and mind. "The French family structure is more dislocated than elsewhere in Europe, and prevailing social attitudes hold that once older people are closed behind their apartment doors or in nursing homes, they are someone else's problem," laments Stéphane Mantion...
...STOPPING THE STOVEPIPING Apart from the terrorists, the biggest enemy the government faced before 9/11 was itself. Agents at both the FBI and the CIA had a longtime habit of stovepiping--keeping information to themselves or sharing it with only a handful of people. That made for good secret-keeping but discouraged critical thinking by the people on the front lines. When an FBI agent in Phoenix, Ariz. noticed two months before the attacks that Middle Eastern men were taking flying lessons in his backyard and alerted headquarters that something ghastly might be in the offing, agents in Washington took...
...lifelong medication. They warned him that the experience had aggravated an esophageal condition and told him to quit drinking and taking snuff. As he recounts this, he maneuvers a large wad of Skoal from his lower lip up into his cheek, evidence of a 20-can-a-week habit. "Some stuff you can do without," he says. "And some stuff you can't." On his living-room walls are a wild boar he shot in Tennessee and a bass he caught in Maryland, a beer-stein collection and a photo of the nine standing in front...
...because it is truly the community of users who have built this company," she says. A Princeton economics major with a Harvard M.B.A., Whitman speaks in measured sentences, but her easygoing nature and sense of humor are evident, even when she reveals a foible: after having kicked her coffee habit for nine months, she admits she's hooked again. "Unfortunately, I'm back on caffeine," she says, laughing. And the whole company can feel the buzz. --By Laura A. Locke/San Francisco
...young Liberians who have known only war and killing, violence is a habit that may take years to outgrow. A big fear is that Taylor's exit will trigger an upsurge in violence, perhaps by Taylor's bands of teenage militias. Standing guard at the God Bless You Gate, Morris Diggs, 14, says he wants to go home and go back to school, but he doesn't even know where his parents are. "We are afraid. If Charles Taylor leaves, you think we are safe?" he asks. "When the President goes, who will take care of us? George Bush will...