Word: tomming
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Among the most eloquent in his skepticism about the use of Ritalin for children who are not severely disabled is Dr. Lawrence Diller, author of Running on Ritalin (Bantam Books; $25.95). He wonders whether there is still a place for childhood in an anxious, downsized America. "What if Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn were to walk into my office tomorrow?" he asks. "Tom's indifference to schooling and Huck's 'oppositional' behavior would surely have been cause for concern. Would I prescribe Ritalin for them...
Last week's National Book Awards banquet in Manhattan was an exquisite literary evening. Copies of nominated books graced each table, nonfloral arrangements for perusal by the usually rumpled and solitary wrestlers of verb and tense now glittering in tuxedos and sequins. There was some disappointment over Tom Wolfe's absence. The room, so festive in black, had expected a coronation for the man so tailored in white: his A Man in Full was the talk of the town, the favorite for the fiction prize. But then John Updike, the most influential of America's living novelists, took the stage...
...prefers raucous and sprawling journalistic narratives that spray-paint the world in bold colors. In 1965 Wolfe wrote a bratty piece calling the New Yorker "the most successful suburban women's magazine in the country." Updike, a fixture there since the '50s, has jousted at the man he calls "Tom, as distinguished from Thomas, Wolfe" and "Tom Wolfe (the younger...
Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks said it was "by far the largest offer in the history of the organization." Johnson declined to comment on the offer, The Dallas Morning News reported yesterday...
...million businesses expected to be online by the end of the year, half will have their own websites, according to industry estimates. "Selling online is the big dream," says Tom Miller of Cyber Dialogue, a technology market-research firm. That's not surprising, since e-commerce is expected to create a financial tidal wave of more than $300 billion early in the next century. The slight percentage of small-business online sales today--7%--suggests that a boom may be just over the horizon...