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...EDWARD HALLOWELL, A PSYCHIATRIST in Sudbury, Mass., has seen the fallout of multitasking mania: it walks through his door five days a week. Over the past decade, he says, he has seen a tenfold rise in the number of patients showing up with symptoms that closely resemble those of attention-deficit disorder (ADD), but of a work-induced variety. "They complained that they were more irritable than they wanted to be," he says. "Their productivity was declining. They couldn't get organized. They were making decisions in black-and-white, shoot-from-the-hip ways rather than giving things adequate...
...because they (the 97 percent of the student body that is normally awake past midnight) need additional calories to supplement their dusk dinners as the next day begins. The average student currently eats 13.6 meals per week in Harvard dining halls, which HUDS expects will rise to 14.1 meals per week if dinner is lengthened. Although a price increase to the meal plan will be needed because of the new schedule, the benefits of eating additional meals in the dining halls will outweigh most of those costs. Furthermore, students’ additional dinners in dining halls will help address...
Curtis is the agent provocateur of the two. In his 3-hr. BBC documentary, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, he makes a breathless case that the U.S. has shifted from a liberal democracy, pledging a better life for its citizens, to a threatening oligarchy, using the specter of alien enemies (lately al-Qaeda) to keep the public in fretful subjugation. He also argues that American neoconservatives have exaggerated the danger posed by Islamic jihadists. The argument, buttressed with a sassy use of news footage and clips from old films and TV shows, zips along with the confident...
...appreciate him as their protector and retriever." Like many of his colleagues on Capitol Hill, DeLay suffers under what officials call this Administration's general lack of respect for Congress. But he is also in the unique position of being the most prominent modern Republican politician in Texas to rise without the help of White House senior adviser Karl Rove, and the two have never been close. "Karl thinks of him as someone a little bit too opinionated for his own good," says an official close to both men. "And DeLay thinks of Karl as a former mail vendor...
...note in his last hours: "Tell all I see them on the other side." It was the last sentiment of a man whom family described as deeply religious. But it was also a simple metaphor for the daily hope of every worker who delves in those deep reaches: to rise again and see the faces they love once more. And the fervent wish?felt, in our direst hours, by even the most secular among us?to step from the darkness into the light...