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...term to describe what ails you: Attention Deficit Trait (ADT). That?s Dr. Edward Hallowell?s term for the ailment brought about by excessive multitasking?and it?s a close cousin of Attention Deficit Disorder. Hallowell is a noted child and adult psychiatrist who has written about and studied ADD for more than a decade. In his upcoming book, Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About To Snap-Strategies For Coping In A World Gone ADD,? Hallowell describes ADT and what causes it. TIME?s Senior Correspondent Sonja Steptoe spoke with him to learn more about how the illness works...
...ATTENTION DEFICIT TRAIT DIFFERENT FROM ADD? True ADD occurs in all settings, regardless of the environment, whereas ADT is environmentally dependent. The person with ADD is the same everywhere, even on vacation. The person with ADT is able to relax away from the setting that induces...
...THERE DRUGS FOR ADT, AS THERE ARE FOR ADD? It's like a traffic jam in your mind. It's something that we have created and we need to learn to control, like a traffic jam. The treatment for ADT isn't medication. That would be like dealing with a traffic jam by taking a sedative...
...blog, where I entertained a couple dozen friends and enemies that bothered to read it. I wrote some about politics. Then, an eccentric British guy named Nick Denton, who has a kind of blog empire, decided that he wanted to add a D.C. outpost to his holdings. He looked around for someone in Washington. I think the pool of people who were willing not to take either themselves or the city very seriously was pretty small...
...European communications companies are not equipped to offer all three services easily - hence a wave of strategic mergers. Late last year NTL, a U.K.-based telephone, cable and broadband company that emerged from bankruptcy just three years ago, proposed to buy Virgin Mobile for $1.4 billion so it could add mobile-phone service to its mix in a "quadruple play." Virgin Mobile's board rejected the initial offer but analysts now expect NTL to increase its bid by around 10%. "The market is telling us that it's still expecting this deal to go through," says Laura Mills of Merrill...