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...baby [FAST-FOOD TIE-INS] One free toy with any Burger King Kid's Meal [PROTESTS SPARKED] Grandpa less stereotypically Jewish in movie, after complaints about Rugrats strip [GROWNUPS' BONUS] This unfinished line: "Born under Venus, look for a ..." [MOVIE] A BUG'S LIFE [ANIMATORS] 60 [WEIRDEST CASTING] Phyllis Diller as the Queen [FAST-FOOD TIE-INS] One Bug toy in each McDonald's Happy Meal [PROTESTS SPARKED] Entomologists steamed because the ants have four legs instead of six [GROWNUPS' BONUS] Transgender issues raised when Ladybug is actually...
Among the most eloquent in his skepticism about the use of Ritalin for children who are not severely disabled is Dr. Lawrence Diller, author of Running on Ritalin (Bantam Books; $25.95). He wonders whether there is still a place for childhood in an anxious, downsized America. "What if Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn were to walk into my office tomorrow?" he asks. "Tom's indifference to schooling and Huck's 'oppositional' behavior would surely have been cause for concern. Would I prescribe Ritalin for them...
...Diller's view, many Americans are so worried about their jobs, the marketplace and their children's chances for success that they place impossible pressures on kids to perform, at younger and younger ages. "In order for them to succeed, we make them take performance enhancers," Diller says. "A society that depends on medication to cope does so at its own risk...
...Lawrence Diller's Running On Ritalin is the book most people are talking about these days, but it's hardly the only one out there. In the past 18 months a flurry of ADD and ADHD books have hit the shelves, each with its own view on whether to medicate or not to medicate...
Surrounding the kelp is a dense and delicate garden of tentacled plants that sway in unison, like backup singers. Pink, orange, rose, green, lavender. Plants with Einstein's hair, plants with Don King's and Phyllis Diller's--all kept graceful by the water. The garden is vertical as well as horizontal. On its floor sea stars crawl on their bellies like fat recruits in basic training. Above them swim the gulping bells of the jellies. In the intertidal zone limpets and other mollusks graze on algae in the rocks. Cancer crabs attack hermit crabs. An anemone divides to reproduce...