Word: taboo
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...substance abuse and dependency when a doping athlete is sidelined by injury or forced to retire from sports. "Doping requires athletes to defy social aversions for using drugs and syringes for nonmedical purposes," notes Patrick Magaloff, director of the French Olympic Committee's anti-doping mission. "Because that taboo has been broken during their careers, athletes who have doped are often less inhibited about using drugs in normal life than clean athletes or nonathletes." That risk is confirmed by officials at the Monte Cristo Clinic, where 20% of patients seeking methadone treatment for heroin addiction report a background in high...
DIED. WILLIAM H. MASTERS, 85, sex-therapy pioneer who, with research partner and second wife Virginia Johnson, studied the mating habits of hundreds of couples to demystify the once taboo mechanics of sex; in Tucson, Ariz. His scientific odyssey into the well-kept secrets of human sexuality began in 1954, and for the next 40 years Masters and Johnson deconstructed and upended popular theories about sex and alleviated the guilt and fear attached...
...softer, it's plain that rock has also become one of those things, like pets and baseball, that lets parents and kids find a shared passion. It may be that Eminem doesn't provide much opportunity for parent-child bonding, unless you're trying to explain why the incest taboo is not just some stupid rule that Mom invented to be mean. But a lot of baby boomers have figured out that it's a short trip from the Pink Floyd they once loved to the Radiohead their kids love now. And a lot of their kids have likewise found...
...adventure, vaudeville and melodrama, slapstick and gags. Schulz dared to use his own quirks - a lifelong sense of alienation, insecurity and inferiority - to draw the real feelings of his life and time. He brought a spare pen line, Jack Benny timing and a subtle sense of humor to taboo themes such as faith, intolerance, depression, loneliness, cruelty and despair. His characters were contemplative. They spoke with simplicity and force. They made smart observations about literature, art, classical music, theology, medicine, psychiatry, sports...
...important for them to do this week because it's not something that students usually talk about," she said. "It's taboo, but depression is not uncommon...