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Chinese "Web Addicts" Get Boot Camp, Therapy
itwbennett writes "A large number of Chinese parents are finding their teenagers to be exhibiting such psychological symptoms as depression, antisocial behavior, and slipping grades. The cause: Internet addiction. World of Warcraft and Counter-Strike rank beside Chinese role-playing games as those that hook the most patients, says Tao Ran, the founder of a youth rehabilitation center on a Beijing army base. Online chat programs more often hook girls, who make up a handful of Tao's current 70 patients. The teens are subjected to a 'strict regimen of military drills, martial arts training, lectures and sessions with psychiatrists.' And, most importantly: no Internet."
The Americans need it more than the Chinese do. At least the Chinese don't get fat.
The U.S. is well on its way to joining China's status as a totalitarian state.
China - Tienanmen Sq.
U.S. - Republican Nat'l Convention (less fatal)
China - Great Firewall
U.S. - NSA and Obama
China - No pornography
U.S. - Hot coffee, etc., moral police
China - Unreasonable detentions
U.S. - Unreasonable detentions. Gitmo's still open for business, not to mention alternate detainment facilities
China - Massive stimulus plan
U.S. - See above
as someone who has to work to control his weight - yes, I envy my fiance, who can eat whatever he wants. But the difference isn't that he can magically eat way more than I can - it's that his appetite is more easily sated...
eating each other's cock makes you fat?