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...tired with all the sports and extracurricular activities. Your hormones are just starting to kick in, and you yell at your parents, teachers and friends about things like homework, picking up your room or just frustration,, so they're thinking, "Who is this crazy person...
...done to get problem gamblers to quit? Medication, in theory, may help. Psychologists like G. Alan Marlatt of the University of Washington are interested in the potential of so-called opioid antagonists, drugs that might partially disrupt the neurochemistry that produces feelings of well-being, thus denying gamblers the kick they seek...
These kid-centric-phone makers insist their devices are not intended for tots who want to kick back in the sandbox, chatting with friends. Rather, they are designed to help children let their parents know about, say, school scheduling changes or to reassure parents that they can reach their kids at any time. Instead of the standard numbered keypads, the kid phones have a limited number of oversize keys and controls that prevent children from dialing or receiving calls from numbers that parents haven't programmed in. Wherifone comes equipped with a global-positioning system (GPS) so parents can find...
TIME Do you ever kick yourself for not joining David Neeleman when he wanted to start JetBlue with...
...hints of behavioral rules in songbirds. A given species tends to have similar songs but with local "dialects" that vary from one territory to another. If a bird sings with a nonlocal accent, he says, "everybody knows: 'Oh, my God, there's an invader.' Then they get upset and kick it out." The question, Blumstein says, is whether that's a sign of ethics or just instinct...