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...place that harbors the most medical wasteis right in your own home," added Bander. "You cutyour-self, put on a band-aid and later throw it inthe wastebasket. That's medical waste...

Author: By Mark K. Wiedman, | Title: State Seeks Solution For Storage of Waste | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

...within the medical field and among parents concern is growing that too many youngsters are being incorrectly labeled and improperly medicated. Hyperactivity has become a convenient diagnostic wastebasket into which doctors and impatient parents, teachers and school administrators toss too many hard-to-handle children. Says pediatrician Martin Baren of Orange, Calif.: "Kids get diagnosed with this when the problem is something else, like a language or learning disability." Or they may be simply rambunctious. A recent study revealed that of 200 children brought to the University of Chicago's ADHD clinic, 40% did not suffer from hyperactivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Worries About Overactive Kids | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...himself. Disaster. Watching the preacher divine the contents of sealed envelopes handed him by his parishioners, Randi, then 15, was outraged. "He was using the old 'one-ahead' method," Randi explains, still indignant. Striding to the pulpit, he fished one of the opened envelopes out of a wastebasket and accused the preacher of cheating. An uproar followed, and Randi was arrested for disturbing a religious meeting. At the police station, he vowed that he would someday fight back against those who defiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Randi : Fighting Against Flimflam | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...scene, the secretary (Fanny Ardant) has just found a mysterious scrap of paper in a wastebasket of a hotel room Mme. Vercel once stayed in. Wandering out into a strange neighborhood, she walks a few blocks, then happens to climb a high wooden fence, behind which an announcer for a horse race happens, just at that moment, to call out the cryptic words that--surprise--happened to be scribbled on the note. This happens again and again; the movie, in fact, stops just short of producing the name of the murderer as a cerealbox prize. Consequently, Vercel and company...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: No Thrills | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

REGISTRATION PACKETS are notorious for containing a large number of papers which usually go from envelope to hand to wastebasket. Aside from the dreaded but necessary study card, assorted Harvard bureaucratic fluff is foisted semi-annually upon the unwitting registrant. But last Wednesday a slightly more interesting sheet emerged from the crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crying Foul | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

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