Driven to Distraction: Have We Lost the Ability to Focus on a Single Task?

Driven to distraction: Have we lost the ability to focus on a single task?

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Around 8 per cent of American gamers between ages eight and 18 seem to meet psychiatry's diagnostic criteria for addiction; brain studies reveal changes in their neural reward system while they game that are akin to those found in alcoholics and drug …
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Chilly AM Edition – Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports

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HEALTH OVERHAUL-PROBLEMS: Senate Republicans blister Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for hours over the new health care law, challenging her honesty, demanding her resignation, and pressing for an admission that … ASTEROID HIT …
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In the papers: Twitter float priced at US a share

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Twitter worth $ 14.2bn as social network prices IPO: Social network giant Twitter will float on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday with a value of US$ 14.2bn. A hundred big banks could go, warns McKinsey: A fifth of the largest … Help to Buy …
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Perched On A Knife-Edge: Lake Victoria's Ailing Fisheries – Analysis

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JD Kotze, a fisheries investigation expert, smuggling in this area is not limited to fish, but these routes are also associated with routes for human trafficking, drug smuggling, cattle rustling and the smuggling of commodities such as sugar. Driving …
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