Word: soberness
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...friend could have taken someone with him. What if on that night several years ago, he had wrecked the car of the sober driver he collided with and not the other way around...
...advocating people giving up what they want to do, but [we're saying they should] be more careful," said researcher Dr. Arthur J. Sober, associate professor of dermatology...
...Sober said tanners should use sunblock lotion, avoid the intense midday sun, or wear protective clothing while...
Perhaps Fellini, who like his stars is in his 60s, is copping a generational plea: "Our kitsch is better than your kitsch." Maybe he means for us to see the faltering but brave Amelia and Pippo as surrogates for himself, still worthy of sober interest, maybe even moral admiration, although the headlines now go to younger directorial stars. Certainly he insists on pumping out more of the "Felliniesque," his trademark blend of the grotesque and the surreal, than we need to get his point that TV is vulgar and coarsening. More moving is his presentation of two carefully imagined archetypes...
...airline industry, the code of pride and honor that has kept most pilots and air-traffic controllers sober over the years may be seriously eroding. In September 1984 a pilot for a major international airline called 800-COCAINE, a New Jersey-based hot line that provides treatment referral and information. He said that he had been up for three days straight snorting cocaine and that he was scheduled to fly a passenger jet to Europe that night. He was feeling exhausted and paranoid, he confided, but was sure he could stay awake and alert if he just kept taking drugs...