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...alcoholism is a disease for which abstinence is the only answer. Most adherents also believe they will never recover but instead will always be "in recovery." Though many who feel they have been saved by A.A. cannot explain exactly how or why it works, they do believe they stay sober by helping others stay sober...
...number of younger members do not dispute that they are in A.A. for different reasons. "I definitely think there is a split," says Rusty, 27, who has been in the program eight years. "The difference is what it's like being sober between the ages of 19 and 27 instead of coming in at 50 with a marriage, a job and a mortgage. I don't know a lifetime of disappointment and pain. My friends who came in at 18 and 19 have had incredible success. They get better jobs, and they move on. [Older members make you] feel...
...paranoid schizophrenia, he thought he had been chosen to shoot and kill an evil "mist" that was enveloping the White House. U.S. District Judge Charles Richey said the sentence, which includes no chance of parole, was sufficient both to punish him and to discourage others from similar attacks. Duran, sober and contrite in court today, told the judge he plans to earn a college degree in small business management while he's in prison...
...alter the Constitution. TIME's Laurence Barrett says the bill has a "very good chance" of clearing the required 38 state legislatures, "not because many elected officials enthusiastically support it, but rather because it's the politically easy thing to do." It would first have to clear a more "sober and cautious" Senate, he adds, where 67 votes would be harder...
...author of many works, including Bombed, Buzzed, Smashed or...Sober: A Book about Alcohol and Like, Love, Lust: A view of Sex & Sexuality, Langone has exposed the human drama behind the gleaming facade of the "marble white palace" of Harvard's Longwood campus. In doing so, he is perhaps the first writer to enliven the medical profession in such a potent, entertaining and realistic manner...