Word: drinkingness
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At this stage of life, the last thing someone wants is to stand out as different. But blending in isn't easy in my case. In my religion, it's mandatory to pray five times a day, including one time that happens to be during school hours. When I'm...
Surprising support for that work came earlier this month when researchers at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic reported that 11 Parkinson's disease patients being treated with dopamine-enhancing medications began gambling compulsively; one patient eventually lost $100,000. Six of the 11 also began engaging in compulsive eating, drinking, spending...
The evening before an election is known as "devil's night." It's when deals are done, money is exchanged, and candidates put last-minute pressure on voters. The atmosphere brings out the louts and alcohol abusers. Dressed in civvies, Curragh and Vei Koso head out after dinner in a...
Tanna's brushes with the outside world have not always been happy. Explorers, whalers, traders and blackbirders snatching laborers for the canefields of Queensland all figure in the island's memory. Missionaries arrived in the 1840s; the sterner among them tried to stamp out the arranged marriages, kava drinking and...
Chief Numake isn't a John Frum man, though he says his grandfather was the last chief to shake the mysterious visitor's hand. He sees in the movement echoes of his adopted faith - the figure in white, staying for several years before disappearing but promising to return - and says...