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Awareness will also help victims' parents overcome the stigma attached to having a child die this way. People frequently confuse the game with erotic asphyxiation, the sexual practice thought to heighten an orgasm. And they frequently assume that victims suffer from psychiatric conditions like depression. In fact, victims tend to be high-achieving students at school, active in sports and well-behaved, according to doctors and some victims' parents. "They aren't playing this game for sexual gratification," Field says. "It's to get a high without taking drugs." (Read "How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century...
...main characters of your films tend to be socially stigmatized: a tobacco lobbyist, a pregnant teen and a man who fires people for a living. What makes you work so hard to humanize these characters...
...growth doesn't necessarily mean an increase in the plants you want." At Duke University, one of the sites used in the FACE program, he says, "the pine trees grew more, but poison ivy grew a lot more. In our own experiments, the plants most sensitive to carbon enrichment tend to be the weeds." (See the top 10 new species...
Small-stakes players also tend to do better with small-denomination cards. A pair of jacks may easily beat a pair of fours, but people who don't gamble much tend to win more with the fours - or with any cards from twos to sevens. That's because the cards' modest numerical worth is easy to understand: they're valuable but not that valuable. When you get into the more rarefied air of eights to aces, you may start losing perspective and putting up more money. "Small pairs have a less ambiguous value," Siler says. (See more about casinos...
...stay optimistic about business and companies' abilities to change with record-high unemployment? We tend to get faked out sometimes by the particular moment that we're living in, whether it's a boom or a bust. If you take three steps backward, you'll realize that the trajectory of things is generally positive. It's not in one smooth upward slope. It involves some pain along the way. But in general, the future is better than the past...