Word: lite
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...Paris' Monte Cristo drug treatment center found 18% of the 5,000 high-level athletes surveyed reporting drug dependency-most consequent to sports doping. That inquiry was launched after the discovery that 20% of the clinic's patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction had backgrounds in élite sports. Generally, French sports medicine experts believe around 10% of the nation's 13 million registered athletes have used performance-enhancing substances-a practice that will ultimately lead to addiction in 300,000-350,000 athletes, according to some estimates. And that's just in France. Says Charles Mercier-Guyon...
...Even when clean, many athletes suffer a heavy psychological blow when forced to leave the athletic élite. "When you remove an athlete from that obsessive, glorified lifestyle and place him in the larger, more diffuse ?real world,' he's going to feel lost, anonymous and often severely depressed," says Gérard Cagni, director of the sedap drug clinic-one of two in France with in-patient programs tailored for athletes. When such a competitor also has a history of doping and drug use, the risk of addiction-and an unwillingness to recognize it as a severe problem...
...Explanatory Dictionary of the Soviet Language defines nevyezdnoi as "a citizen not allowed abroad by Soviet authorities." Nearly the entire population of the old Soviet Union was nevyezdnoi: only the élite were allowed to travel to foreign countries. These restrictions were lifted in the Gorbachev era, but now a new nevyezdnoi class is emerging. This time, it's the élite who are restricted, and not just by the state...
...with massive critical acclaim and popular success, is up for those two awards as well. If Coldplay can steal just one Brit from Radiohead at the awards ceremony on Feb. 26, it will confirm its claim as the cute Radiohead alternative, instead of just Radiohead Lite...
...they had mechanisms to legally change their head of state. The option they chose, popular uprising, while rousing and probably justified, could portend a troubling future for democracy. If 10 million text messages go out and 1 million protesters take to the streets at every crisis - when the élite become dissatisfied with the direction of the country, or the military feels that the President has lost his or her mandate or the Catholic church views the head of state as immoral - the result is a perfectly healthy, if rambunctious, version of democracy. But if those protests lead to constitutionally...