Word: thoughtlessness
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...absence of any biological test, diagnosing ADHD is a rather inexact proposition. In most cases, it is a teacher who initiates the process by informing parents that their child is daydreaming in class, failing to complete assignments or driving everyone crazy with thoughtless behavior. "The problem is that the parent then goes to the family doctor, who writes a prescription for Ritalin and doesn't stop to think of the other possibilities," says child psychiatrist Larry Silver of Georgetown University Medical Center. To make a careful diagnosis, Silver argues, one must eliminate other explanations for the symptoms...
This journalistic exercise may somehow enhance the status of both authors within the journalistic and Harvard communities, but they regrettably will never be forced to answer to and deal with the repercussions of their poor judgment and thoughtless actions...
Third, Stonecypher and other members of the Harvey C. Mansfield school of thoughtless rhetoric wrongly assume that students accepted as a result of criteria that include, but are not limited to, academics are not qualified to perform academically here. At their most extreme, these people argue that when race is a consideration, schools like Harvard are forced to accept underqualified African-American students to ensure a diverse student body...
That kind of thoughtless assault on privacy has helped put telemarketing high on the list of industries Americans love to hate. Whether you are just sitting down to dinner or anxiously waiting for your beloved to say, "I will," the phone pests always seem to call at exactly the wrong time. Often the despised intruder is not even human, but a recorded sales message delivered by a rapid-fire automatic dialing machine...
Yours is a legacy not to be thrown away. In the U.S. there are those prepared to dispense with the American approach to ethnic diversity and begin counting by race. It is a dangerous, thoughtless course that we will one day regret with Balkan intensity. Similarly, the Canadian solution of dignified if sometimes disputatious coexistence between two great peoples is one too precious to throw away. Save the best...