Word: similars
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...virtual world can be no less addicting than other activities, such as gambling. She describes her first patient who exhibited signs of compulsion: He had come to her in a moment of crisis 15 years ago - having discovered a text-only role-playing computer game that was conceptually similar to Dungeons and Dragons, he had begun dedicating nearly all of his time to the game. He got fired from his job at nearby Microsoft, and his marriage was falling to pieces. Cash realized he was showing the classical signs of addiction. "I was so intrigued," says the co-author...
...America,” producers Hyunmo Jung and Sun You said yesterday at Hillel. “We’re trying to understand where you’re from, your struggle, your history,” You told the gathered students. “We’re similar culturally, and maybe Koreans can be inspired by your stories...
...between the two panels of the diptych, the man cannot escape the “shadows of his youth.”The contrasting ability of Palma’s earlier and more recent works to convey genuine depth becomes most obvious for those pieces that have similar content, despite being produced at separate times. As in “Coagulated love,” “Variation #2,” a digital photograph, features a hand ominously placed on a woman’s shoulder. However, the composition also includes a man watching the woman from stairs...
...spring, it seemed that the cases were more severe than those reported in the United States, O’Hagan explains. In a study led by Lipsitch, researchers performed “disease surveillance” to determine the severity of the flu and see if the strain was similar in both Mexico and the United States...
...most provocative contribution to the health-care debate has been her proposal for a trigger that would activate a Medicare-like, government-run public option to provide affordable coverage if private insurance companies failed to. "It would be a safety net, a fallback mechanism," she says, arguing that a similar idea worked well to stimulate competition in the Medicare prescription-drug program. The idea has found a receptive ear at the Obama White House, where officials believe it could be a way to bridge the ideological divide that has made the public option for the least insured a flash point...