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Article: Bishop's war `hurts' gaming // Retiring cleric sees fad fading
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 14, 1996
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You can only guess since one card is face down. But you figure
the dealer is holding 19.
You've got a 10 and a 7.
Though you probably shouldn't, you ask for another card.
It comes up 4.
Yessss! That's 21! A winner!
Physiologically, your blood pressure increases, your respiration
rate rises. There's a slight spike in your metabolism. Perspiration
beads as your body warms to the substances released by your adrenal
glands.
Psychological needs are met, too - some as simple as relief of
boredom.
In mind and body, gambling's a powerful attraction. That makes
it pretty tough to fight in the public arena.
But United Methodist Bishop R. Sheldon Duecker has been doing
that for years. ...