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...called the Bureau of Study Counsel and asked if I could “turn myself in” as a Net addict. But some helpful pamphlets on time management aside, they didn’t have anything to tell me about my condition. My counselor apologetically suggested, “You could google it.” University Mental Health Services proved similarly forthcoming. I gave my number to someone rumored to be an expert on the subject, but he has yet to call...
...maybe I’m not alone. If you “spend more time than you think you should surfing the Net,” “feel you have a problem limiting the time you spend on the Net,” “find it hard to stay away from the Net for several days at a time,” “find particular areas of the Net, or types of files, hard to resist,” “have trouble controlling your impulses to purchase items, products, or services...
...white or black; he's a little of both." Obama receives a favorable rating from more than 2 out of 3 economically stressed voters, far ahead of the ratings for McCain or his running mate, Sarah Palin, whose appeal outside the Republican base has been evaporating. The net result is that Obama has overtaken McCain among that volatile and often decisive demographic group: white women. And he has narrowed McCain's lead among white...
...credit crisis is left to play out. "Nobody really knows," he said. "Clearly we're in the panic stage of unreasonable behavior." At the Connecticut offices of UBS, nervous colleagues passed around a joke about why the market was like a divorce but worse: "I've lost half my net worth, and I still have my wife." Off-color humor for off-color times...
...most recent year for which the A.D.’s tax filings are publicly available, the club earned $320,000 in revenues from the Adidas store, with almost $60,000 in net income. In 2006, the club lost more than $44,000 on the store...