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LinkedIn: A Story About Silicon Valley's Possibly Unhealthy Need for Speed

LinkedIn: A Story About Silicon Valley's Possibly Unhealthy Need for Speed

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In Internet years, LinkedIn is much older than other networking sites, such as Facebook (FB) and Twitter. It was founded in 2003, and it built out its technology infrastructure on … Just as importantly, though, LinkedIn created a whole suite of …
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Support groups in the Manatee-Sarasota area

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A Sensible Policy on Pot

A sensible policy on pot

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When the idea of treating drug abuse as a medical problem rather than as a criminal justice issue was proposed in the late 1980s by former Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, critics dismissed the suggestion as not only dangerously naive and impractical …
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Sharon Osbourne ' Devastated ' by Ozzy Osbourne's Drug + Alcohol Relapse

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Lost in the Electronic Wilderness

Lost in the electronic wilderness

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While the majority of the 80 to 90 clients on each 12-week residential programme are in treatment for alcohol or drug addiction, many have behavioural addictions as a second addiction, Burn says. Most clients who come from Dubai, usually about seven to …
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Children addicted to 'electronic ayi'

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'Evil Dead' Remake a Lot Messier Than Original

'Evil Dead' remake a lot messier than original

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Alvarez is the internet sensation who, for $ 300, created an amazing short called “Panic Attack” (actually “Ataque de Panico”), uploaded it to YouTube in 2009, and grabbed the attention of Hollywood soon after. It's no surprise that he … In this …
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E-commerce Ours, all ours

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I Caught My 8-Year-Old Sending NAKED Pics of Herself: A Mum's Sexting Nightmare

I caught my 8-year-old sending NAKED pics of herself: A mum's sexting nightmare

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“Like all parents, we'd told our girls not to speak to strangers, but we felt she was too young to hear that sick men and women could have got hold of her photos and sent them all over the world on the internet. "Instead, we … Dr Richard Graham, who …
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On the Web, you are what you shop: Michael Smerconish

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Are There Medications That Can Reduce or Shut Down the Reward Centre of the Brain?

Question by : Are there medications that can reduce or shut down the reward centre of the brain?
I know that drug addiction is centred in the pleasure centre of the brain and I am wondering if there is any way to reduce suppress or stop the over activity in that part of the brain.

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