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...with a message of abstinence but of moderation and awareness of the risks. The challenge is to find effective ways of teaching those lessons. Last year, the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, located in the home state of casino-rich Atlantic City, developed what executive director Ed Looney says is the country's first responsible-gambling curriculum for grades K-12. The program emphasizes rational decision making and an awareness of the incredible odds against winning at casino games and the lottery. Counselors say the problem is that kids are inevitably exposed to gambling before they are developmentally...
That's why Looney wants to reach even the youngest kids with a message of moderation. "The program isn't there to say whether gambling is bad or good," he says. "We just want kids to learn how to make good choices." The curriculum remains voluntary for schools, however, and Looney admits that responsible-gambling programs like his often get squeezed out of the busy school year by higher priority subjects like sex education and drug prevention...
Many parents may not mind their kids playing poker, but even those moms and dads know that there are risks. The biggest of those, namely, is the risk of addiction. Ed Looney, executive director of the Council of Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, says that as a rule of thumb, 80% of kids who start gambling will just dabble in it with no further harm, 15% will have some signs of problem gambling (playing past their budget, lying about losses), and 5% will become truly addicted...
...What's next? Before the 2002 Games, Team U.S.A. leaned on veterans from Nagano, and the squad spent five months playing together. This time around, Smith, no sentimentalist, cut vets Shelley Looney and Granato after the 2005 tryout camp. "In the past six or eight years, we had the same faces," says Smith. "The team now is the future...
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