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...literature on how the brain handles multitasking. And basically, it doesn't. It may seem that a teenage girl is writing an instant message, burning a CD and telling her mother that she's doing homework--all at the same time--but what's really going on is a rapid toggling among tasks rather than simultaneous processing. "You're doing more than one thing, but you're ordering them and deciding which one to do at any one time," explains neuroscientist Grafman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Multitasking Generation | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...release. These findings could revolutionize treatment of ADHD—the new medication could treat the condition just as well, but be unavailable for the purpose of getting high. Concerta will, of course, continue to be abused by students to help them in their studies, but Spencer said addressing rapid-release drug abuse was a significant first step. “We don’t want any misuse,” Spencer cautioned, “but the people who use to get high, those are the ones we’re most concerned about...

Author: By Kenneth G. Saathoff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ADHD Drug Less Prone to Abuse | 3/16/2006 | See Source »

...policies to its investment strategies to its student body’s simultaneous love of liberalism and objection to all things radical.Of course, Harvard students tend to favor social change far more than the voters of Missouri. But Harvard students have two distinctive characteristics that limit their tolerance for rapid change. First, students who make it to Harvard have done pretty well with the status quo. We’re not all wealthy and upper class—though a lot of us are—but we’ve all found some way to make the system work...

Author: By Samuel M. Simon, | Title: The Trouble with Tradition | 3/16/2006 | See Source »

Even worse, a new breed of smarter and faster films crashed the scene: the independents. Their pint-sized budgets and rapid production cycles made them worthy competition for the lumbering blockbusters. As quickly as it began, the age of the blockbusters came to an end. Or so Hollywood’s prophets of doom and gloom would have you believe...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deep Focus | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

...issue, you can make four or five ads targeting entirely different groups. It's cheap because you don't have to pay for airtime, and because I don't need to book a studio"--Crawford edits everything on her Mac and does her own voice-overs--"it's rapid response. I can turn it around in 24 hours." The Democratic National Committee plans to use its list to make a series of inductive leaps. "If you know what magazines a 40-year-old female voter subscribes to or what websites she reads," says a former DNC consultant, "you can apply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaigns: An Eye On The White House And An Eye On You | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

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