Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) affects between 3 and 5% of U.S. children, who have to be given medications to help them calm down so they can function in school. Scientists who have been searching for the cause of this disorder, which was almost unknown in the past, think they’ve finally found the culprit: television.

Researchers say that watching too much TV at too young an age can lead to ADD. They say that children under two should not be allowed to watch any TV, despite the special shows, like “Teletubbies,” that have been created just for them. Older children should watch no more than two hours a day. Instead, the average is more like 4 to 6 hours. Each hour in front of the TV increases a child’s chances of having ADD by 10%.
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We earlier reported that scientists are complaining that the Bush administration is promoting junk science in order to justify its programs. Now an internal memo that was sent to Republican congressmen about the upcoming Presidential election has been leaked. It tells them to say things like “global warming is not a fact,” “links between air quality and asthma in children remain cloudy,” and “The U.S. Environment Protection Agency is exaggerating when it says that at least 40% of streams, rivers and lakes are too polluted for drinking, fishing or swimming.”
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In Whitley’s new journal, he writes: “Nowadays, faith is a loaded word. But when hasn’t that been true? People have been getting themselves killed for one faith or another since earliest times?It’s worthwhile, at this wonderful season of rebirth and affirmation, to take a look at what that word faith actually means.”

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As part of our new Communion Letters series, “Chip” writes: We have this electric doorbell. It works via a transmitter switch on the outside of the front door. Its normal sound when the button is pressed is supposed to be “Bong… bong.” There’s a setting you can change that makes the doorbell play a melody, but we dont have it set to that. And when someone really does ring the doorbell, it does it’s usual “bong…bong” the way it’s supposed to. But for the last month, the doorbell has been making the non- programmed melody once a day.
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