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Just 10 years ago, teenage gambling did not register even a blip on the ! roster of social ills. Today gambling counselors say an average of 7% of their case loads involve teenagers. New studies indicate that teenage vulnerability to compulsive gambling hits every economic stratum and ethnic group. After surveying...
Counselors fear that little will change until society begins to view teenage gambling with the same alarm directed at drug and alcohol abuse. "Public understanding of gambling is where our understanding of alcoholism was some 40 or 50 years ago," says psychologist Jacobs. "Unless we wake up soon to gambling...
The sweep began last Thursday in Hanover, N.H., as the Crimson faced Ivy rival Dartmouth. Harvard was greeted by the league's top first line--Lori Jacobs, Gretchen Ulion and Judy Parish--which accounted for five goals and seven assists in the Big Green's 6-1 drubbing.
Aggravating the slump is a worldwide credit crunch that affects everyone from auto shoppers to Third World governments. Many lenders who were burned by bad loans in the 1980s are now prudent to a fault. Says Jacobs: "The banks are basically pushing panic buttons everywhere. They are saying, 'We don...
In the meantime, consumers and business leaders will have to adjust to a climate radically different from the 1980s, when the economy was reliable and forgiving. "We're in tough times in a very dicey world. There's going to be a lot of fallout," predicts Donald Jacobs, dean of...