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...laws that are just targeting a handful of individuals. You want to pass laws that have some broad applicability. And as a general proposition, I think you certainly don't want to use the tax code to punish people." He later went on to say, "Main Street has to understand, unless we get these banks moving again, then we can't get this economy to recover. And we don't want to cut off our nose to spite our face." (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
Which suggests a classroom technique for ADHD kids: Don't overly tax their working memory. Rapport, who used to be a school psychologist, says the average teacher doesn't understand how ADHD kids process information. "If you go into a typical classroom," he told me, "you might hear, 'Take out the book. Turn to page 23. Do items 1 through 8, but don't do 5.' And you've just given them four or five directions. The child with working-memory problems has dropped three of them, and so he's like, 'Page 23 - what I am supposed...
Such research is in its infancy, though, and if you have a child with ADHD, it's important to understand that he processes the world in a different way. He might be (literally) running circles around you, but that may be his way of paying attention...
...could it be that we're one of the only two developed countries in the world to refuse to ratify the Kyoto Protocol? I don't understand. I just don't get it." - To then-Prime Minister John Howard, whome he later defeated, during a televised debate. (BBC, October...
...attention to the laid-back canton. Melchior Looser, Appenzell's justice and police minister who spearheaded the proposed legislation, didn't return TIME's request for an interview but told a local newspaper that the sudden public interest in the naked-hikers issue is "absolutely ridiculous. I don't understand what all the fuss is about." (See pictures of the newest natural wonders of the world...