Word: avoiding
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...down day that users sometimes call Terrible Tuesdays. "You know the black mood is chemical, related to the serotonin," says "Adrienne," 26, a fashion-company executive who has used ecstasy almost weekly for the past five years. "But the world still seems bleak." Some users, especially kids trying to avoid the pressures of growing up, begin to use ecstasy too often--every day in rare cases. In one extreme case, "Cara," an 18-year-old Miami woman who attends Narcotics Anonymous, says she lost 50 lbs. after constantly taking ecstasy. She began to steal and deal...
...expected to double by 2030, when 70 million people will be 65 or older, you'd think we would face up to the reality of the most ubiquitous aging issues: housing, health care and finances. But according to AARP researcher Linda Barrett, most parents and their adult children still avoid the topics...
There was a way to avoid the bug: by using a computer running a Linux or Apple operating system. PATRICK GUINNESS Naas, Ireland...
...BARAK revealed a position not unlike that of his hard-line predecessor BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. Barak says if Arafat unilaterally declares a fully sovereign state in all the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel would respond by unilaterally annexing Palestinian territories Israel wants to keep for itself, a move long avoided because of the international controversy it would stir. Arafat, says Barak, "will ask recognition from nations of the world, and most of the world will immediately recognize him. There are certain areas that he will claim and we will claim. Immediately a question will emerge: Who really is the sovereign...
...outcome by that date, he would unilaterally declare a Palestinian state. But he may have backed away from a confrontational scenario. "Senior Palestinian officials have indicated that Arafat will wait at least until the end of the year, to give Clinton time to broker a deal and to avoid creating a showdown that could become an issue in the U.S. presidential election," says Beyer. "Besides, Barak has also indicated that if Arafat takes unilateral action, he will do the same and simply annex East Jerusalem and those parts of the West Bank Israel wants to keep. That would set Israel...