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- 511: The Dark side of a Wonder Drug-A Selected Collection of Testimony on the Safety of Ritalin
- ... working at Corel and every five minutes he's fidgety, and he remembers that he used to take Ritalin as a kid and it helped and maybe it can help him now in his career," Jane Peters, Ph.D., says(Team Ritalin). Other adults are being diagnosed for the first time as the disorder is detected in their own children. "More and more ADD has become a condition that is well ...
- 512: The Mayor of Caterbridge: Important Characters
- ... affected by these appearances is Michael Henchard. The first time these two met, the furmity woman and Michael Henchard, was in a tent at the fair where Michael, his wife Susan, and their daughter Elizabeth-Jane had decided to eat. While waiting, the furmity woman made the gesture and offered Henchard a bit of alcohol to be put in his food. As Henchard ate more and more, he wanted more and ...
- 513: Ronald Wilson Reagan
- ... Knute Rockne-All American, King s Row, and Bedtime for Bozo. During his acting career, Reagan was elected as the president of the Screen Actors Guild (the union for film actors) six times. He married Jane Wyman, had two children, but divorced her eight years later. He married Nancy Davis in 1952 and they had two more children. As president of the union, he tried to remove communists from the movie ...
- 514: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... announcer. A screen test in 1937 won him a contract in Hollywood. During the next two decades he appeared in 53 films. He has two children, Maureen and Michael, from his first marriage, to actress Jane Wyman. In 1952 he married Nancy Davis, also an actress; their children are Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott. As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan became mixed up in disputes over the issue of ...
- 515: The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes
- ... Fifties. New York: Red Dembner, 1986. Rosen, Obst. The Sixties: The Decade Remembered Now, by the People Who Lived Them. Toronto: Random House Publisher, 1977. Roy, Andy. Great Assassinations. New York: Independent Publishing, 1994. Stern, Jane, and Micheal. Sixties People. New York: Knopf, 1990. Tucker, Ken, and Stokes, Geoffrey, and Ward, Ed. Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll. New York: Rolling Stone Press, 1986. Weiss, Bill ...
- 516: Movie Review: Sense and Sensibility
- Movie Review: Sense and Sensibility Ang Lee, who directed, and Emma Thompson, who adapted the screenplay, have done an excellent job of bringing Jane Austen's Victorian novel, Sense and Sensibility, to the movie screen. The movie's collection of actors are a joy to watch as they bring out the emotions of an otherwise polite and reserved era ...
- 517: Virginia Woolf
- ... have made for a good speech but would not have really covered the full scope of the problem. Woolf said: They just might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to the Brontes and a sketch of Haworth Parsonage under snow; some witticisms if possible about Miss Mitford; a respectful allusion to George Eliot; a reference to Mrs. Gaskell and one would ...
- 518: Authur Miller
- ... of an all-woman orchestra in a Nazi concentration camp. The show itself received the Emmy for an Outstanding Drama Special, and Miller received one for Outstanding Writing. Vanessa Redgrave won as Outstanding Actress, and Jane Alexander, as Outstanding Supporting Actress. In addition to his novels, Miller has written two books of reportage: In Russia and Chinese Encounters, both accompanied by photographs by his wife Inge Morath, a professional photographer. His ...
- 519: Alcoholism And Drug Abuse
- ... comes from the flowering top of the cannabis plant; it may look like dried herbs or tea and is usually green, brown, or gray in color. Marijuana (also known as pot, weed, grass, hash, Mary Jane, reefer, yarndi, Acapulco Gold, mull, or dope) is usually smoked in the form of a joint (a loosely rolled cigarette), a blunt (a hollowed out cigar), or a bong, (a water pipe). Like any other ...
- 520: Booker T. Washington
- ... for the black community to fully enter the American society. Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Franklin County, Virginia, on a small tobacco plantation. His only true relative was his mother, Jane, who was the plantation's cook. His father was probably the white son of one of the neighbors, though it is not known for sure. Washington spent his childhood years on the plantation, but since ...
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