Word: snappingly
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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...
...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...
Five minutes into last night's home game against Hofstra, it looked like the Harvard women’s basketball team had a chance to snap its losing streak at Lavietes Pavilion. But the Crimson let its eight-point lead quickly turn into a fifteen-point deficit. Hofstra (5-4) ultimately defeated Harvard 82-68, extending the Crimson’s skid to eight games and tying its longest losing streak since the 1983-1984 season. A barrage of three-pointers put Harvard (2-9) on top 22-14 at 15:03, but the Pride fought back with an aggressive...
...cherished reform projects of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi?a plan to privatize the government postal system, which, among other things, is the world's largest savings bank. Koizumi then made good on a threat many had considered a bluff. He dissolved the Diet's lower house and called a snap election, positioning the vote as a referendum on whether the people wished to cling to their big-government roots, or press ahead with the frequently painful changes necessary to produce a more modern and competitive economy...