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...ailment brought about by excessive multitasking?and it?s a close cousin of Attention Deficit Disorder. Hallowell is a noted child and adult psychiatrist who has written about and studied ADD for more than a decade. In his upcoming book, Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About To Snap-Strategies For Coping In A World Gone ADD,? Hallowell describes ADT and what causes it. TIME?s Senior Correspondent Sonja Steptoe spoke with him to learn more about how the illness works and who?s at risk...
...Johnson, achieving that peace is the key to avoiding a full-fledged slump. A slump?that downward spiral that only gets worse the harder you try?is familiar to even amateur athletes. For golfers, it can start with the yips, an uncontrollable twitch of the arm or an involuntary snap of the wrist at just the wrong moment. For a pitcher, it's the strike zone over home plate that suddenly begins to jump around. For the basketball player, it's the hoop that has inexplicably shrunk...
Those primordial conditions are what Stern and his colleagues will be trying to understand when New Horizons reaches Pluto and its three moons (two were found just this past fall) in 2015. As the probe zips by, cameras will snap pictures of surface features about the size of a football field, analyze Pluto's thin atmosphere and measure its temperature...
Those issues don't seem to bother the Americans who pop pills and snap up supplements touted as brain enhancers. The latter are often a waste of money. Studies examining the cognitive benefits of supplements have either proved inconclusive or shown only modest effects. There's some evidence that the popular herb ginkgo biloba boosts cerebral blood flow and improves mental functioning, particularly when taken with ginseng. But there's also evidence that it doesn...
...only thing Harvard women’s basketball guard Lindsay Hallion seemed to miss Friday night was her tooth. The sophomore, who tallied a career-high 17 points and eight rebounds, helped the Crimson snap its eight game losing streak in a 71-62 victory over Binghamton, even after she lost a front tooth with 10:33 left in the first half. Three other Harvard players reached double figures in the Crimson’s first victory since November...