Word: annoyances
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...Denver, which treats about 50 children a week for a curious mix of problems. Some can't seem to get their motors in gear: they have low muscle tone and a tendency to respond only minimally to conversation and invitations to play. Others are revved too high: they annoy other children by crashing into them or hugging too hard. Many can't handle common noises or the feel of clothing on their skin. A number just seem clumsy. Adults can remember kids like these from their own childhood. They were the ones called losers, loners, klutzes and troublemakers. At STAR...
...question is where to draw the line between what's normal and what's pathological (see sidebar). Studies conducted by Alice Carter, professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, suggest that 40% of children ages 7 to 10 are so sensitive to touch that tags in clothing annoy them, and 11% overreact to sirens. But no one would claim that all these kids have a sensory disorder. Carter thinks SPD is too vaguely defined for prime time in the DSM. Instead, she favors adding it to a section at the back of the manual on disorders that warrant...
...cash out of toll roads by essentially behaving like the private sector and charging market rates for usage. The express lanes of State Road 91 in Southern California, for example, carry some of the highest tolls in the nation--at peak hours, nearly a dollar a mile--which may annoy drivers but help pay for the state's transportation needs. The Pennsylvania Turnpike commission has produced a plan to raise turnpike tolls and attach tolls to other roads in the state...
...Underwood (the only song to which some actually could be seen singing along). Student opinion was mixed on the subject of bringing T-Radio to Harvard Square. “Most of the people who want to hear music already bring their iPods anyway, and it will probably just annoy them,” said Marianne Eagan ’10. Others were more optimistic. Nicholas G. Purcell ’11 noted that music could improve the subway experience if the music is “soothing and non-invasive.” A Harvard Square T station guitarist...
...founding vision of unfettered electronic liberty. Of course, it is possible to misbehave on Facebook--it's just self-defeating. Unlike the Internet, Facebook is structured around an opt-in philosophy; people have to consent to have contact with or even see others on the network. If you're annoying folks, you'll essentially cease to exist, as those you annoy drop you off the grid...