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Audacity of Cowardice, Hopelessness: Why Does Much of America Avoid the Tough...
"Audacity of Cowardice, Hopelessness: Why Does Much of America Avoid the Tough Tasks? Just a few short months ago, many Americans including current Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, said the “surge” in Iraq would not work. He was against...Drivers face jail if found texting in UK
With the increased use of mobile phones people are indulged in chatting or texting even during driving. Now a new law in Britain will make it difficult for the motorists who read or write text...
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Surgeon who removed wrong kidney blames distractions
I'm supposed to have arm surgery soon. And the more I hear of stories like this, the more I swear I'm going to write on the correct arm!"A Methodist Hospital surgeon who mistakenly removed the wrong kidney from a...Are you 'Distracted', Out of Focus? Maggie Jackson raises the red flag on Mul...
Maggie Jackson describes our current world as an ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) Society in her book Distracted subtitled The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. She worries as The Brian Lehrer Show put it that "today’s tendency to multi-tasking has us headed for...Latest Anti-Pot Quack Science: 'Marijuana Makes Your Teeth Fall Out'
"Recent weeks have seen a rash of new studies of marijuana hitting the mass media, generating scary headlines like "Smoking Pot Rots Your Gums," "Cannabis Bigger Cancer Risk Than Cigarettes" and "Pot Withdrawal Similar to Quitting Cigarettes. Most of this coverage can be... Drivers on cell phones clogging traffic: study
The study here concludes that gabbing motorists add 20 hours a year to a typical hour-long commuter route. Not sure how significant that really is, but distracted drivers are a problem for sure."WASHINGTON - Drivers... 731 views | 6 comments | 5 recommendations
Smoking drivers risk prosecution
"Motorists who smoke at the wheel could be prosecuted under a new rule in the latest edition of the Highway Code. Smoking drivers would be charged if it is thought they were driving without due care and attention. Road Safety Minister Jim Fitzpatrick said drivers should not... 10 Bizarre Sights in Google Street View
1. Someone apparently climbing over a fence in San Francisco
2. Borat peeking out of a window in San Jose, California
3. The already infamous 'Hot Babes' poster van driving alongside the Google truck in Las... 8926 views | 19 comments | 14 recommendations
Distracted browsing wastes two days a month
A British survey has found two out of three web users lose a significant amount of time when browsing takes them off at a tangent to their original goal.Online market research agency YouGov found almost one quarter of browsers estimate they spend more than 30 percent of their...Republican Justice -- Libby And The Judicial Hypocrisy of the American Right
"Today marks two weeks since the jury delivered a "Guilty" verdict in the case of US v Lewis Libby, handing down the first conviction of a high ranking Bush Administration official. Though the news cycle has moved on...Entrepreneurial Attention Deficit Disorder
"Are successful entrepreneurs more likely to have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)? That's what some people think. I wouldn't know -- I couldn't stay focused long enough to research the study. In yesterday's column, I described what I call BADD Boss Syndrome -- or Boss...
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