Word: avoiding
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...night the equivalent of three e-mails to high-school pals, or one coffee-break or surfing two Internet sites? We also have to create conditions in which we can sleep properly. So we have to practice what doctors call "good sleep hygiene": wind down before going to bed, avoid caffeine after midday and don't sneak daytime naps...
...prevent child abductions are taking vacationing families by surprise. Single parents traveling with underage children have been prevented from boarding planes and from entering Canada, Mexico and several South American countries. U.S. policy will soon require the signature of both parents on a child's passport application. To avoid being stranded, mom or dad should carry notarized letters from both parents authorizing the international travel of their child...
...allowing the army to step in and seize control--under the pretext of ensuring stability. That could then trigger a broader clash between the army and the police similar to the one that occurred in Croatia and Bosnia. In Podgorica local government officials say they are working hard to avoid that possibility, despite what many consider provocations from Belgrade...
...things he was out of was his mind. In a movie, Oscar Levant told Joan Crawford, "Don't blame me, lady. I didn't make the world. I barely live on it." Somerset Maugham dignified the dreaming-out-the-window business. "A state of reverie," he said, "does not avoid reality; it accedes to reality." I like that--accedes to reality...
...bear hunt. Last summer Governor Christine Todd Whitman pressured the state's fish and game council to reduce its target from 350 to 175. Instead of a hunt, foes argue, let the bears deplete their natural food supply, which would cause their numbers to drop--assuming, that is, they avoid the local Dairy Queen Dumpster. "Trophy hunting solves nothing," says Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the U.S. "People should bear-proof their garbage and close their windows while cooking...