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...arrival of automobiles ultimately brought us words like rubbernecking, gridlock and road rage, the information age demands new terms for the behavior it induces. So says psychiatrist Edward Hallowell in a forthcoming book, CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap--Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD (Ballantine Books; 246 pages). Here's a sampler of Hallowell's new words for new times...
...nominating contest. But political junkies will have to adjust their thermostats for 2008. At a meeting July 22, the Democrats are set to revamp their voting calendar, and some big changes are likely. Members of the Democratic committee in charge of the schedule say they will add a southwestern and a southern state to the early caucus and primary schedule. Iowa's caucus will remain first on the campaign schdule, the Democrats say. But it will now be followed by a Southwestern caucus, New Hampshire's primary, and a Southern primary over the next few weeks, before the field...
...spiking metal prices caused by demand from China and India and a couple of smelting-factory shutdowns in Mexico you may not have heard about, the zinc inside a penny now costs .83 of a cent. (The U.S. got rid of almost all the expensive copper in 1982.) Add distribution and production costs, and you're up to 1.3 cents to make a penny, which freaks people out. That's because the U.S. Mint claims to make a profit, called seigniorage, on the difference between the cost of producing currency and its value. That, however, is stupid. Printing money...
...interested, I would like to lay out my theory in very complete detail this coming Tuesday," which was Nov. 16. He invited Einstein to come to Göttingen and have the dubious pleasure of personally hearing him lecture. Then, after signing his name, Hilbert felt compelled to add what must surely have been a tantalizing and disconcerting postscript. "As far as I understand your new paper, the solution given by you is entirely different from mine...
...also might have reprinted more of her delightful reviews that surface about once a chapter. Unlike her musings on the theater of eating in disguise, they add critical depth to her otherwise perfunctory examination of a foodie’s experiential lifestyle...