Word: habited
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...believe the guerrillas may be willing to do this: For a "Greater Albania" insurgency exported from neighboring Kosovo, they will have done extraordinarily well if they keep the deal. Most important, it will have made them an indispensable factor in the stability of Macedonian political life - this despite their habit of driving non-Albanians out of the villages they've captured. Guerrilla commanders could certainly make a case that they need to consolidate their gains and avoid forcing NATO into a fight. "Greater Albania" can wait as long as progress is being made...
...John Ohmer knew the parents in his congregation wanted help weaning themselves from the habit of overindulging their children. But as a father of three who has to ration Nintendo in his own home, Ohmer, rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Leesburg, Va., also knew it wasn't as simple as just telling families to buy less. So he revved up what he calls an "underground Christian resistance movement" for parents, offering parish workshops that urged them to make an inventory of their lives and holidays and then imagine the ideal version. Their dreams, it turned out, entailed...
...Still, it's not something that any country can easily walk away from - not even a Bush administration that has made a habit of being the party pooper in international forums. There's a political cost, too, in being seen to duck a discussion of racism. Instead, the U.S. and some of its European allies are looking to make the menu more palatable. They want to expunge the two most controversial items: discussions of reparations for slavery and colonialism, and of Zionism as racism. Washington has warned that if those topics are still on the agenda come conference time...
...hexamethonium, a compound not currently approved by the FDA for use in humans. In these cases, the FDA requires that researchers obtain the agency's approval before administering such compounds. But because of the huge number of academic trials and the accompanying paperwork, the FDA had got into the habit of quietly discouraging universities from applying for approval, assuming that safety issues could be dealt with by the universities. Then, in 1999, the feds abruptly cracked down, stopping human research at Duke University Medical Center. One infraction they cited: the improper recording of minutes of a meeting. Frustrated critics...
...about $20 for a wax-paper sheet of opium, 6 mm thick and as wide as his hand. Broken down into the individual pipe loads he prepares for foreigners, that nets him a profit of about $300?minus the 10 pipes a day he needs to feed his own habit. "Opium, opium," he calls out to foreigners who walk past his sugarcane juice stand. Anyone who tries to actually buy any juice is shunted away. The battered old cane press hasn't worked in years...