FOOD BANK USE UP ACROSS THE COUNTRY
The number of people who use a food bank in Canada is greater than the
entire population of New Brunswick, says a new report on hunger.
FULL STORY:
http://cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/16/foodbanks031016
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To text or not to text
You knew it had to come. When it was reported last week that a British rehabilitation clinic had begun treating patients for an uncontrollable addiction to text messaging, it certainly sounded like a sign of the times. Or something. It was hard to be sure of the precise significance of the announcement that The Priory, a clinic in London, had staked out this new territory in the relatively uncharted realm of techno-driven psychosis. But the fancy facility is known as one of the best acute psychiatric hospitals in Britain, so its doctors probably knew what they were doing when they identified unstoppable text messaging as a complaint comparable to eating disorders, alcoholism, drug abuse and stress-related illnesses.
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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ed20031013a1.htm
You knew it had to come. When it was reported last week that a British rehabilitation clinic had begun treating patients for an uncontrollable addiction to text messaging, it certainly sounded like a sign of the times. Or something. It was hard to be sure of the precise significance of the announcement that The Priory, a clinic in London, had staked out this new territory in the relatively uncharted realm of techno-driven psychosis. But the fancy facility is known as one of the best acute psychiatric hospitals in Britain, so its doctors probably knew what they were doing when they identified unstoppable text messaging as a complaint comparable to eating disorders, alcoholism, drug abuse and stress-related illnesses.
[MORE] ->
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?ed20031013a1.htm