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...here's a prescription for Ritalin.' I sobbed." Charlene had a lot of friends who did not believe in ADHD and thought maybe she and Tim were just being hard on Erin. "I thought, 'Maybe there is something else we can do,'" Charlene says. "I knew that medicine can mask things. So I tore up the prescription." Tim thought that it was possible the doctor's diagnosis was too hasty and didn't want to believe it. "Part of us said, 'How can he look at a kid for 15 minutes and judge?'" Says Charlene: "I believed she had ADHD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age Of Ritalin | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...G.O.P. majority in the House, where big ideas can falter on just six votes. Speaker-elect Bob Livingston and his team are promising tax cuts, more money for defense and a new way of bookkeeping that will do away with the accounting trick of using Social Security money to mask budget deficits. Enacting such a bold program while keeping the budget balanced will mean pinching funds that pay for programs to which voters seem attached, such as low-income home-energy assistance and environmental enforcement. Moderates within the G.O.P. are likely to use their increased leverage to block major cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Watts Solution | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...Hooker, about midway between Guymon and Liberal, where four generations of Howells have grown wheat and raised families. Now feisty Julia Howell, 69, talks about her "40,000 neighbors" and explains why she seals the farmhouse windows, stuffs pillows into the chimney and seldom ventures outdoors without a face mask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: The Empire Of The Pigs | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Monday, July 1, 1996: "80[degrees]. Calm. Tried to sit outside a while. Impossible without a mask. What a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: The Empire Of The Pigs | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Despite these problems, it is hard to mask the iMac's low price and host of features and technology. And while there are many environments for which it would not be appropriate, the iMac is certainly a viable option for a home or a college dormitory. What's Included: 4 GB Hard Drive 24x CD-RAM Drive 32 MB RAM 2 MB Video RAM 10/100 Base-T Ethernet Card 56Kbps Internal Modem Built-in Monitor Keyboard and Mouse

Author: By Nicholas C. Fox, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: iMacs `Cute,' Cheap but Hard to Use | 11/24/1998 | See Source »

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