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...ADHD or even jet lag. In the military, it's used to sharpen soldiers' alertness and cognition. Her research is attempting to determine how this chemical affects normal people. "Is there a trade-off," she wonders, "between focusing attention and reducing creativity? And if more workers use it to excel, will we have a workforce of narrow, rigid thinkers...
...Nearly 40 teams participated in the world competition held last July in Toronto, with a Belgian team placing first, USA taking the silver, and Australia nabbing the bronze. At the national level, some 850 athletes competed at the USA Jump Rope championships in Orlando last June. While some entrants excel in speed - the current world record is 190 hops in 30 seconds - others are known for their freestyle routines, which incorporate gymnastics and choreography into individual ("single rope") or group ("double dutch") performances...
...changes everything," says Marc Tucker, vice chairman of the commission and president of the National Center for Education and the Economy in Washington. "To be competitive the kids coming out of our high schools are going to have to match the best performance worldwide in the core subjects and excel in creative and innovative skills...
...Autobahn” succeed most in their capacity for revelation. Most of the dramatic tension in each play revolves around the exposure of the “story” behind each couple’s relationship that has created the current crisis, and the actors excel at gradually conveying that explication over the space of twenty minutes in a car seat...
...ever seen on the job, the UA’s mind didn’t go anywhere near the gutter. “Somebody once brought in an Apple Two computer who wanted data off his hard drive, because he had a spreadsheet in a format before Excel was invented...seeing an old computer like that, it was like an ancient piece of historic computer history.” It’s naked hard drives, not naked first-timers, that turn UAs on. Rrrowr...