Word: habiting
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...that as a diversion its safety ranks somewhere between bungee jumping and Russian roulette. For the past decade, addiction researchers have struggled to sort through the tangle of biological urges and psychological cravings that stir people to light up, in an attempt to develop better ways to kick the habit. That effort is finally beginning to bear fruit...
...coping with the urges that will persist even with the patch in place. Unfortunately, physicians have a poor record in this regard. Less than half of 2,700 smokers surveyed for a study in last week's Journal said their doctors had ever advised them to kick the habit or even to cut down...
...habit of talking to people...since I've been that high," Wernher P. says, gesturing to an imaginary point about two feet above ABP's tile floor...
LAST WEEK, someone scrawled the word "faggot" on Lowell senior Frank M. Habit's door. This person also tore down two of Habit's postcards--one showing two male dancers, the other reading, "Closets are for clothes and not people." The same standard applies: A college should not discipline you for writing despicable comments on your own door (as the University of Connecticut did last year to a woman who posted a "No homos, no bimbos" sign), but it should for writing them on someone else...
Soon, however, Jaglom made peace with and even embraced the fitness cult of California -- although, ironically, he gets more exercise in Manhattan than in L.A. because people actually make a habit of walking in New York City. His latest film, Eating, is about women's struggling with society's message that a gorgeous physique is the ultimate virtue. The movie, says Jaglom, could have been set only in California, where people seem to talk more openly -- and obsessively -- about their bodies than anywhere else. "It's the healthiest thing about this place," says Jaglom, who divides his time between...