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...technical name for my cure is flooding, a technique usually reserved for treating phobias. In the early '70s, London researchers reported a novel treatment for the obsessive-compulsive washing that comes from a pathological fear of dirt: they confined a washer to a hospital room and arranged for the room to be increasingly soiled. As the grime got thicker, the patient's anxiety level would rise and rise-the doctors had turned off the water taps-until the agony was no longer bearable. At which point, no, the doctors did not take the patient out of the room-they were...
...compliment for the staff to be able to show their talents off like that," he said. "You can take a guy who was a pot washer and turn him into a five-star chef at a five-star restaurant...
...free ticket to Alpena. Then I acquired a credit card that would give me one mile for every dollar spent. The credit line was tiny, but the sense of possibility was enormous; why, if I just bought a car, a VCR, a computer, a fax machine and a washer-dryer set, I could go to State College, and back, for free (depending on availability, blackout dates and routings...
...fire alarm at the control center can mean burning toast, an overheated washer or dryer or a closed flue in a student fireplace...
Perry Wong, self professed "owner and the dish washer," says he's been running the popular operation for 33 years, most of it spent greeting customers from his post in the front of the takeout/eat-in joint...