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...lost the house." Chuck admits he had trouble focusing on details, completing tasks and judging how long an assignment would take. He was so distracted behind the wheel that he lost his license for a year after getting 14 traffic tickets. Unwittingly, Pearson began medicating himself: "In my mid-30s, I would drink 30 to 40 cups of coffee a day. The caffeine helped." After he was diagnosed, the Pearsons founded the Adult Attention Deficit Foundation, a clearinghouse for information about add; he hopes to spare others some of his own regret: "I had a deep and abiding sadness over...
...Japan's actions in World War II "aggression" and said his family behaved brutally.The prince also revealed that a team from the United Nations' forerunner, the League of Nations, was served fruit laced with cholera germs when it came to investigate Japan's invasion of China in the late '30s. The Yomiuri, Japan's largest newspaper, conducted the interview after the recent discovery of a 1944 speech Mikasa delivered to soldiers "out of a desperate desire to bring the war to a close." BTW: Criticism of the army during the war was treason.parpar
...purges perished in the Soviet Union's system of forced-labor camps. In Khabarovsk he visited a large, privately maintained cemetery. At the entrance to the graveyard, he paid his respects at a small chapel built to commemorate those who had perished in the totalitarianism whirlwind of the '30s. Two young priests were reading the Orthodox "Eternal Memory" service from a prayer book. It was one of many symbolic moments on an odyssey that has become a kind of traveling metaphor: himself a survivor of eight years in the Gulag, Solzhenitsyn is recognized as the person most responsible for bringing...
...present for not living up to the image in the gilded rearview mirror Potter held to his youth. In Blue Remembered Hills he re-created his West Country childhood (but with adult actors as the kids). He larded his breakthrough series, Pennies from Heaven, with sentimental tunes from his '30s infancy. "Childhood," Potter said, "is full to the brim with fear, horror, excitement, joy, boredom, love, anxiety." He was welcome to cherish his youth; he never got to savor...
...five-part series on UFOs during sweeps week, family-sensitive news is at least partly a marketing ploy -- and a crafty one. The people who are presumably most attracted to G-rated newscasts are the parents of small children. They are primarily young adults in their 20s and 30s -- just the age group most prized by advertisers. But news directors defend their bloodless broadcasts on journalistic grounds as well. WCCO has replaced shots of dead bodies with reports that try to "put crime in context," says news director John Lansing. "The 'flashbulb effect' causes people to become disengaged and fearful...