Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took away everything--my drugs, my booze, even my wallet, car keys and New Yorker magazine--and left me nothing but the "Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous and the promise (or was it a warning?) that I was under medical supervision. I was shown to a cold hospital detox room with rubberized sheets...
Julia Levy of Vancouver still remembers the day in the mid-1980s when her heart broke. She was sitting across the dining-room table from Dorothy Coppens, her vibrant 85-year-old mother, who had just been found to be suffering from macular degeneration, an incurable deterioration of the central portion of the retina that is the leading cause of blindness in people 60 and older. "Your face is just a brown smear," Coppens told her daughter. "I guess I'll never see your face again...
...becoming a full agent by the time he was 21 and a millionaire by his mid-20s--that he never had a chance to figure out who he was, beneath all the trappings of worldly success. He spoke eagerly, with a midrange, clipped California accent, his voice filling the room with vague blandishments about how eager he was to stay sober and how grateful he was to his fellow agents who had intervened to send him here and how he was looking forward to getting back to work...
...largest concern is where they are watching television. Two-thirds of all kids eight and older have a television in their bedroom, says the Kaiser report. And a third of kids ages two to seven have TVs in their room. That's way too many kids spending way too much time alone in their bedroom with only Kermit the Frog and the offspring of Aaron Spelling to keep them company. So the first thing parents should do is take the TV out of a kid's room. Like computers, televisions should be where parents can at least tell if they...
...once hit a ball into your own hotel room. Did you take a mulligan...