ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him. Jim Williams,an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, notes that cell-phone addiction is part ofa set of symptoms ina widening gulf of personal separation. He points toa study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with,Williams says studies show that we don't have as many friends as our parents."Just as more information has led to less wisdom,more acquaintances via the and cell phones have produced fewer friends."he says. 60.Which orf the following best explains the title of the passage? 61.The underlined word “ curb ” in Paragraph 2 probably means “________ ”
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