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...choice for ADHD is Ritalin, a stimulant that has the paradoxical ability to calm overactive kids. But giving Ritalin to a bipolar child can deepen an existing cycle or trigger one anew. Brandon Kent, a 9-year-old from La Vernia, Texas, in whom ADHD was diagnosed in kindergarten (they did not yet know he was bipolar), took Ritalin and paid the price. "It sent him into depression," says his mother Debbie Kent. "Within a couple of months, he was flat on the couch and wouldn't move." By some estimates, up to 15% of children thought to have ADHD...
...went to Drip because it sounded like a gas, something different to do," says widowed kindergarten teacher Jaki Williams Florsheim, 58. She had her first date with divorced accountant Henry Florsheim, 54, at the cafe in 1999. She had asked to meet him after reading his profile. They were married a year later and now live in Brooklyn, N.Y. "If you had told me that I would meet my husband through a place like Drip," she says, "I would have said you had to be kidding...
...writer of cheesy love songs, Bronfman made a big bet on the music business in 1998, shelling out $10.4 billion to buy Polygram. Unfortunately, with digital piracy starting to take a chunk out of CD sales, his timing isn't looking great. "I wouldn't leave him with a kindergarten class. I think he has shown a lack of ability to manage anything," says Michael Palmer, president of Toronto-based Veritas Investment Research...
...Marcus Stadelmann, calls Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner who flubbed Reconstruction, "a horrible human being." When I was in school, textbooks were not that honest. Of course, when I was in school, textbooks still said the U.S. had never lost a war, and I started kindergarten four months after the fall of Saigon...
...Angeles the school board voted to explore alternatives to--and possibly abandon--California's state test, the Stanford 9; San Francisco is weighing a similar measure. School officials in Cleveland, Ohio, dropped from 16 to 13 the number of tests required from kindergarten through eighth grade. And in Nebraska, a state with an unusual assessment system that mixes state exams with more flexible local tests, the education commissioner, Doug Christensen, says he's convinced he can comply with the No Child Left Behind Act and maintain the state's current testing program. "We're hoping...