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There's more to the story, however. That downward slide has leveled off--and in many cases, turned around. Boys today look pretty good compared with their dads and older cousins. By some measures, our boys are doing better than ever...
...foreign-exchange market and money will flow into currencies in countries where such investments will be welcome. And if foreigners turn away from dollar investments, the economic repercussions will be severe. Without overseas buyers, stock and bond prices in the U.S. will fall and the dollar will continue to slide. This will drive up the price of imports, especially oil, worsening inflation and reducing consumers' income...
That can go for nonchemical addictions as well. Behaviors, from gambling to shopping to sex, may start out as habits but slide into addictions. Sometimes there might be a behavior-specific root of the problem. Volkow's research group, for example, has shown that pathologically obese people who are compulsive eaters exhibit hyperactivity in the areas of the brain that process food stimuli--including the mouth, lips and tongue. For them, activating these regions is like opening the floodgates to the pleasure center. Almost anything deeply enjoyable can turn into an addiction, though...
...improve upon the blurb written by Grady Hendrix of the Subway Cinema collective, the NYAFF's producers and programmers: "A vertiginous slide down a swirling toilet bowl of bad taste, Aachi & Ssipak ... has repulsed movie critics and delighted audiences around the world. Not since the animated anti-authoritarian head trips of Ralph Bakshi has a movie done so much so quickly: within the first reel it's dispensed more ultra-violence than a thousand action films, annihilated all boundaries of good taste and bent numerous intellectual properties (like Batman) over the table and violated them so gleefully they may never...
...that, man. I just tell people that it really doesn't matter. I mean, if I drop [in the draft] because I didn't lift 185 pounds, then it's a big thing. But people say I'm not going to drop at all. So I just let that slide off. But it got to me a little bit at first...