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...favor of putting warning labels on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drugs such as Adderall akin to those on cigarette boxes, noting that these drugs increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and sudden death. It is true that ADHD is a difficult disorder to diagnose. Informed patients can easily bluff their way into a diagnosis with a correct enactment of symptoms. And we still have no completely effective method to determine whether a person has ADHD or not. But incomplete knowledge cannot absolve us of the responsibility to preserve fair play on campus as well as to protect our students...
...need not take his speech too seriously: "An uncompromising stance against Japan plays well into the anti-Japan nationalist sentiment of the people, which could improve his low approval ratings." One columnist openly doubted that Roh had the guts to make good on his threats, should Japan call his bluff...
...consistently popular boss - which has not always been true for all members of the royal family. "There's a lot of esprit de corps here," says Ross. "People stay a long time, and they don't get rich. It's because she's wonderful to work for. You cannot bluff, you cannot pull the wool over her eyes. You get clear direction, never ambiguous, and once a decision is made, it's not changed. The hardest thing about the job is ever letting her down." Hunka says the palace "is almost without politics. I never have to write a memo...
...Looking out from behind Ned's stubble, she was surprised at how much sexual power women have over men, even when women may feel disempowered in other ways, and how icily they wield it. She was also surprised how tough it was to keep up the façade of bluff, jocular arrogance that both sexes demand from men at all times. "Every man's armor is borrowed and 10 sizes too big," she writes in Self-Made Man, "and beneath it, he's naked and insecure and hoping...
...Iran claims that it needs nuclear power, but Europe and the U.S. are worried that the technology could be diverted to support the building of nuclear weapons. Iran already has a rich source of energy in the sunlight of its deserts. Europe and the U.S. could call Iran's bluff by offering to build enough solar-power plants to supply all the country's needs. It would be an inexpensive way to reduce worries about how to restrict the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Gerry Wolff Anglesey, Wales