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...Ritalin For millions of children who suffer from with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), drugs like Ritalin have been a godsend. Yet at the same time there is real concern that the use of Ritalin to curb all manner of fidgety behavior has become too casual and that the drug is actually being abused as a performance booster. A Duke University study suggested that the drug is, in fact, both over- and underprescribed. The Duke team found that 25% of kids with confirmable adhd are not getting the drug, while more than half of kids who are taking the drug...
...Bush may be a godsend for the traditional broadcast networks. This is a man whose ideal weekend is on his Crawford ranch, which has no cable or satellite dish. Forget all those niche channels in the low 70s on your cable box. The Sci-Fi Channel and the Albanian Home Shopping Network have no place in Bush?s home. Watch for the nation to follow suit and return to family shows such as ?Touched By An Angel.? A Michael Landon revival could follow...
...CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD: Forget all those lurid statistics constantly peddled by the Goody-Two-Shoes lobby about the common cold's toll of billions of lost man-hours. See it in human terms: the common cold is a godsend, the greatest benefactor to the working stiff since the advent of the boring job. It's technically an illness; in reality it's a universally acceptable excuse to declare yourself hors de combat and take a day off from work. Wipe out the common cold and you rob millions of Americans per week of their sacred rights not only...
...especially with Lincoln at Home serving especially as a perfect cure to a guilt-laden Harvard kid who crammed for the Civil War final, subsequently forgot everything, and feels guilty about it. Real historians have every right to be disappointed in the work's brevity, but it's a godsend for anyone who wants a short read and craves history that flows more like gossip. And regardless of past History B pain, the book is a short enough read to justify it as an investment in the impress-people-at-dinner store of knowledge...
...majority of 1999 living near Riverside Park in Manhattan and discovering the joys of walking by the water, staring at architecture and "mixing with all those different people." For someone who says she writes 80% of her music in her head while ambling about, New York was a godsend. "My writing did change a lot. It became much more specific and I became much more concerned with paying attention to detail and surroundings." Doesn't London, where she started her career, have details too? "Yes, but it doesn't have New York's energy...