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...year-old high-level e-commerce executive in the Pacific Northwest - we'll call him Bob - felt he was losing his edge. Although his colleagues saw him as a star, he feared he wouldn't be able to continue the lightning pace and constant multitasking his job required. So he saw his doctor. Now Bob takes Adderall, a prescription amphetamine ordinarily used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD...
...Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, I would have been forced to wear whatever our male Iraqi security guards picked out without me. Last March, I arrived to an onslaught of rockets and mortars fired at the nearby Green Zone, along with retaliatory coalition air strikes and the near constant thunder of helicopter blades overhead. As with other foreign reporters, my movements were always calculated, and I often donned a long black abaya and head scarf. But this time around, I was one of the few women wearing an abaya as I shopped in the relatively liberal city center...
...ground component of the military campaign to deter Hamas from firing rockets into Israel. Even as the Israeli air force pounded Gaza for a seventh day and Palestinian rocket fire continued, the soldiers living in and around their tanks and armored personnel carriers in the winter cold, on a constant state of high alert against mortar fire and possible guerrilla raids, were wondering out loud about what's holding back their political leaders from giving the green light. And the flirtation with various cease-fire proposals earlier in the week by the man in charge of Operation Cast Lead, Defense...
...Ponzi scheme - as anyone smart enough to engineer one knows - is a plan that is uniquely without an exit strategy. It requires a constant infusion of new investors to pay off a growing body of existing ones, and ultimately it becomes impossible to find enough suckers. When that happens, the scam collapses. Sure, you could always flee the country before the roof caves in, but many scammers don't and Madoff famously didn't. The reason lies in the personality - or, more accurately, the personality disorder - that drives them to such frauds in the first place...
...much-anticipated pep rally featuring DJ Girl Talk came to a disappointing halt when students, despite constant warnings from event organizers, squeezed up against the stage, which lacked a concert barrier as per Girl Talk's contract. Several police officers stood on stage as Girl Talk—a moniker for Gregg Gillis—sampled his mashed-up songs. But after the crowd caused the stage to move, Gillis transferred his equipment to the ground. No matter, the indefatigably throbbing crowd caused one student to hyperventilate and others to crawl under the stage for relief. Organizers took the stage...