Word: soberness
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...Alex, 20, a recovering alcoholic who got sober in 1998, says his first meeting was with only four other members, straight from central casting - grizzled old men with decades of stories about life in the gutter. "They would talk about running liquor during prohibition," he says. "I thought my life was over. I was never going to have fun again. I was going to sit around with old guys, smoking and drinking coffee for the rest of my life." Now, he says, "I walk in and I see people my age, younger, and they're all laughing and having...
...meeting follows the same procedure as any AA gathering. A volunteer reads the 12 steps and traditions, and then a guest speaker - in this case, a 29- year-old who has been sober for 11 years - shares his story. John, a computer applications designer who, with his wife, is considering buying a $1 million loft in Greenwich Village, talks about how alcohol and drugs caused him to lose scholarships to Harvard and Princeton. Once, he says, his sister found him on the bathroom floor with no pulse, resuscitated him - and watched him head out the door to the next party...
...switch to the enemy camp? A year ago the entire market was confident that Europe could take on the world in the wireless space. Now a more sober reality has set in. Japan has pulled well ahead of Europe. Prohibitively expensive third-generation mobile licenses have made the entire industry question business models. And delays in the introduction of next-generation services mean that time to revenue is being pushed back, killing many start-ups and opening the door to big and well-funded U.S. companies like Microsoft. Symbian, on last year's list as one of Time Europe...
Nader Hasan’s April 11 tour de force on “The Sacred Duty of Peacekeeping,” makes the impassioned case. Fear not, seasoned realpolitikers and sober diplomats—our munchkins will be trained in what Hasan calls the venerable “arts of humanitarian relief and peacebuilding.” They will take their cues from military dynamos such as Canada, further along than we no doubt on the celestial arch of Progress, and they will dutifully sit in on seminars about the food and drink of the society-to-be-saved...
...Spurs and Jazz have likewise reaped the benefits of a clean and sober team. While Stockton and Malone have perfected the pick-and-roll over the years, players like Odom seem to care more about the roll-and-smoke than such basketball fundamentals. Tim Duncan and David Robinson have likewise presented a huge challenge to opponents, playing high above the rim while much of the rest of the league is just playing high. Noticeably absent on these top teams are the drug violations that have plagued several other elite teams around the league...