Word: regimens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most part, the Catholic Church uses two treatment centers in America for pedophiliac priests: St. Luke Institute in Maryland and the facility operated by the Servants of the Paraclete in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. At St. Luke the regimen involves breaking down denial and incorporates 12-step programs to control sexual addictions. It also provides drug therapy involving Depo-Provera, a synthetic compound, similar to the female hormone progesterone that lowers the sex drive. In its nine years St. Luke has treated 137 priests for pedophilia and ephebophilia, the sexual obsession with postpubescent children. The center operated by the Servants...
...Based on the author's own childhood, it told of a first-generation Chinese-American misfit named Kai Ting who struggles to grow up in a predominantly black San Francisco neighborhood. The youngster stands up to the ghetto's bullies and his Caucasian stepmother, who imposes a harsh Americanization regimen that bans Chinese language and customs. Out of these fresh and dramatic materials Lee fashioned a winning novel, and after this successful debut, he quit his day job as an attorney to write full time...
...your commitment," he says. He became a prison leader, and at 23 he was plucked out of jail with other I.R.A. veterans to negotiate a cease-fire in London. The peace pact was short-lived, and soon Adams was back behind bars, where he settled down to a "monastic regimen of studying, research and writing." He came out of prison a skillful writer with a sound intellectual foundation for his political beliefs...
Boston picked him up for the stretch run after Juwan Howard went down with an injury. He has played like he was 20 again, crediting his rejuvination to a Bob Marley training regimen in the off-season...
Tonya has her own stress-reduction regimen. "What I do is I basically try to 'tree' it," she told TIME. "My ((sports)) psychologist taught me that. You touch a tree, and you leave your problems there. I get to the rink, and I touch a door so I can leave my problems right there. Most of the time it's been working...