Word: rard
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...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-can complicate matters...
...make up 60% of his business, he says, but since the first case of "mad cow" disease was discovered in Italy last month, "no one even asks for it. Shoppers are terrorized." Meanwhile, at a bustling organic meat and vegetable market on Paris' Boulevard Raspail, greengrocer Gérard Courvaisier is all smiles. "Business is up 30% here. People suddenly see us as a refuge. The mad cow crisis has been a real shot in the arm for organic producers...