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...solution is to add a $15 to $25 monthly unlimited Power Vision data package to your voice plan. There are other good reasons to get a Power Vision plan, such as streaming Sirius radio and Cartoon Network video clips on demand, but this means you have to spend a lot of money every month just to access to the music store. If the goal of any wireless music store is instant gratification, the impulse buy, why does Sprint make you plan ahead with special service? That, and not the high-but-conceivable $2.50 song price, could hurt the store...
Haber, now retired, had always been disorganized. His life was full of clutter. He had trouble managing everyday tasks and meeting deadlines. "I would ask myself, 'Am I lazy?'" he says. Then a diagnostic workup revealed that Haber has ADD (also known as ADHD, or attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder). Now he's treating it. He takes the stimulant Ritalin to help him focus, and he sometimes consults with an ADD coach, who helps him keep the clutter...
...possible for a 63-year-old man with a Ph.D. to have attention-deficit disorder? That was the question English professor Richard Haber asked himself six years ago as he sat in his doctor's waiting room and flipped through a book on ADD, as the ailment is known. Haber, who taught at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass., thought he might learn something about his students' problems. Instead, he says, "I recognized myself...
...long ago, ADD was widely regarded as a children's ailment. But experts are increasingly discovering that it afflicts all ages. Psychologist Thomas E. Brown, author of Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults, has seen his practice, which centered on young children 20 years ago, expand to include younger adults and seniors. They come to him and say, "I've had this problem for so long. If there's a treatment...
...John Ratey, co-author of the landmark Driven to Distraction, says seniors are often referred by their children in a "stair-step" sequence--first the grandchild is found to have ADD, then the parent and finally Grandma or Grandpa. Recalls Virginia Cooper, 73, who has a grandchild with ADHD: "My daughter said, 'Mother, I think you've got it.' And I said, 'Don't be ridiculous.' But then I read about it and realized that maybe she was right. I've always been distracted. I cannot stick to one thing. It's like somebody's changing channels in my brain...