Word: habited
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...aristocratic human who has the good fortune to be raised and trained up by the elves into a bad-ass swordsman. Túrin is good-hearted but flawed: he's irascible, quick to anger and quick to act on his anger - he has a bad habit of killing people before he quite realizes what he's doing (though he's always remorseful afterwards). "Túrin was slow to forget injustice or mockery," Tolkien writes, "and he could be sudden and fierce. Yet he was quick to pity, and the hurts or sadness of living things might move...
Audiences, especially kids, are taking notice. Two recent studies, published in Lancet and Pediatrics, have found that among children as young as 10, those exposed to the most screen smoking are up to 2.7 times as likely as others to pick up the habit. Worse, it's the ones from nonsmoking homes who are hit the hardest, perhaps because they are spared the dirty ashtrays and musty drapes that make real-world smoking a lot less appealing than the sanitized cinematic version...
...dozen health groups including the American Medical Association are calling for reduction of smoking in movies and on TV, and 41 state attorneys general have signed a letter seeking public-service ads at the beginning of any DVD that includes smoking. Like smokers, studios may conclude that quitting the habit is not just a lot healthier but also a lot smarter...
...Cave knows those kinds of symptoms all too well. In August of 2005, her 21-year-old daughter Jennifer was killed by Colton Pitonyak, 22, a University of Texas finance major with a drug habit. Jennifer had dropped out of college, but was trying to get her own life back on track after some problems with drugs and had begun work as a legal assistant. After Jennifer failed to return home from a dinner out with Pitonyak, Sharon, a Corpus Christi small business owner, and her boyfriend, Jim Sedwick, drove to Austin and began the search. When...
Cinematic smoking inspires children to light up, and officials from the Harvard School of Public Health are doing their part to help the silver screen kick the habit...