Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 21, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1986 business professor agrees asians show High degree of motivation deaf Ann Landers you struck a nerve with your comments on our sick you who will run our country 20 years from now the answer is if you dont believe just look at who Are taking the top honors in High filling Stanford and Cal not to men Tion beating us from greengrocer to i wish every american would read Gibbons decline and fall of the roman if they would re place roman with american they would have a Good idea of Ann Landers whats happening in our keep in those who do not remember the past Are condemned to repeat the solution is better this Means better education for Leader As Warren Bennis said in his they Are not they Are a person such As could exercise greater influence if your columns were More informative and less Bat then you prob ably would have fewer dear you do my readers a disservice by suggesting that they want Only to be i Haven lasted for 31 years because i am Warren professor in the school of business administration University of Southern agreed to respond to your this is what he had to say your correspondent May be fight when he says asian americans will be running our country 20 years from while we still see Many hardworking caucasian Stu they Are dramatically out by those from the Peoples re Public of Korea and South Here Are some facts that give credibility to the writers i will focus on Japan for reasons that will be which is about the size of supports 115 million peo the largest automobile manufacturer in the world is not Genera is eight of the 10 largest Banks in the world in terms of assets Are in the Only american Bank on the is in students attend school 240 Days a year As compared with 180 Days in the United Many american students spend More time in front of the to than in ninety seven per cent of japans students finish High in Chi horror novelist purges demons through writing by Tracey Shreiber horror novelist Mason Burgess describes himself As beyond scar at the age of he he sat through the exorcist three times just because its a darn Good Burgess May not shrink in terror at the sight of a bloody hand or a headless but that exactly the spin tingling effect he wants to have on his my goal is to provide people with the ultimate has just published his second novel blood a chilling account of the Indian leg end of the Cannibal spirit that possesses innocent dressed in faded Blue jeans and sipping Tea in the sunny Kitchen of the Transcona Home he shares with his wife and three Earold Daugh Burgess int your typical scary i guess in supposed to have blood trickling from the Corners of my Mouth and choose Black or red As my favorite he but in really just a writer who specializes in i dont live i live although he wants to terrify his Burgess says he Doest like to dwell on the cheap Gore Reading a lot of paper Back novels lately that spend two or three pages describing a Decani he that cheap if you want you at least need to have a Story and characters you care who prefers watching old Type gangster movies with James Edward Robin son and said his favorite horror movie Carrie is a Good example of what he tries to achieve in his own they didst rely too much on the he and yet at the end of it you were scraping yourself off the Burgess said his interest in writ ing and horror began when he was still in elementary i was Reading Edgar Allan Poe stories when i was about six years he i was always interested in read ing and writing and the stories i wrote in school were always More bizarre than anyone monster Homework Winnipeg is Burgesss Home he went to River East and Miles Mac Donell collegiate and he used it and neighbouring towns As the locales for both of his i dont think there Are any horror novels situated in he Burgess decided to pursue a writ ing career when his red River Community College degree in communications and broadcasting didst secure him a after i wrote my first horror novel child of i wanted to Experiment because in interested in other Burgess but horror is whats Selling right now and with horror novels you really get to use your imagine Burgess said father was a great monster fan and when lie also became his parents didst discourage when id have trouble with my dad would Tell me to try to equate that problem with monsters to make it Burgess Burgess admits that Hes very particular about the horror novels he preferring anthologies on film stars and horror movies in his Bookcase is stocked with the Vampire horrors a history of horror collections of films by Bette Montgomery gift and Kirk Doug plus horror comics and Maga Burgess said he thinks writing horror stories is Good i dont have any he i think that by spending my whole Day writing stuff like i purge myself of any thoughts that would cause Burgess says his father told him to equate his Homework problems with Art Sale Over 500 pieces in sweat out flu like see doctor Stock All half Price open sunday noon 4 Pembina Taylor 2849241 1 tossed and dreaming that i had a fever and i awoke in the morning to find that it haunt been a Nightmare i did have fever and every muscle in my body i got dressed and drove the children to i drove to by i was sweaty and 1 cancelled the afternoon appoint ments and slept on the Couch in my my head Felt As though it was going to my eyes Felt As thought they were popping out of their after a few hours rest and a couple of acetaminophen to i headed All that i tossed and every movement seemed to bring on health Howard ladies Wear insurance Stock liquidation ladies sizes 615 includes Winter suits Winter Coats skirts sweaters slight smoke damage 2 locations 340 Portage 1579 Regent at Margrave Transcona hours 9 9 10 4 sunday careers every saturday in the free two blankets didst next my Muscles especially by it Hurt to i nursed myself with More acetaminophen and Chicken Noodle my fever broke just after a dry cough and Runny nose the feeling of unsteadiness and headache More than a week has passed and in still not up to full All the other doctors in our office have been similarly affected with minor Varia one lost her another was so he didst eat for three weve tended to numer Ous patients with the same sym what weve All got is a its a flu like maybe even a True influenza whatever it its definitely Here and we Haven yet heard from any official govern ment sources As to which particular virus it treatment rest and Ace Tamino antibiotics wont lots of sweat it three Days then lingering some of us experienced ups and feeling relatively Well for a Day or Only to begin the process All Over related problems weve seen a number of cases of bronchitis cough plus or minus theres even been a Case or two of pneumonia cough with crackles heard with the Stethoscope on plus or minus wheeze or whistle there have been infected ears and some people have had nausea and vomit a few have had most have had extreme fati gue and muscle Many have Chest pain made worse by deep coughing and a few have coughed up blood streaked although viruses dont respond to id suggest that you still seek medical advice should you experience similar some cases of most pneuma some tonsillitis and the ear infections do require without an you wont know whether or not antibiotics Are As far As self medication is con save your aside from nothing is Worth wasting your Money this is especially True for children where much of what you can buy without prescription is not Only useless but potentially warn children the first problem is accidental its not seems the childproof containers Arent exactly my children Are better at opening them than i if you must buy please keep them in Safe places out of reach of Little the nifty flavourings give children the impression that the stuff is Many parents reinforce this notion while coaxing their kids to take the never do Tell them that it is not warn them never to touch it next is children with viral illness should not be Given unless it is specifically pre scribed by a has been associated with the potentially fatal Reyes in spite of Many warnings i understand theres one being sent around with the family allowance parents continue to give their kids the warning should be legislated onto the bottles of All products containing but so far it Hast acetaminophen Papadol is Safe when used in the proper dose and Given every four to six use it to keep fevers Down to and for aches and is not overdose May be forget All the cough and cold syrups they dont some contain antihistamines which May dry up the nose slightly if at studies have shown them to be of no Benefit for the treatment of ear they make most kids Dopey so some parents use them As sleeping some children become stimulated with their too much can prod uce hallucinations and con overdose May cause decongestants do reduce nasal congestion but dont shorten the duration of the they May also elevate blood pressure and increase heart after being Given Decon some children become cant sleep and get try using a bulb which you can get from the drug to suck the nose clean and if you really want Salt water drops May keep the nose passages Dextrom Thorphan do is the most common cough Many parents report poor results with drowsiness and gut upset Are rare but do requires prescription Hydro Codone requires a pre Crip its main use is the support of drug addiction if you take you May still cough in youll be so High that you wont in Young children and it May depress the ability to codeine is another narcotic which is available in some nonprescription suppresses cough and your ability to it be Given to in sorry theres not More i can offer i really i sincerely wish that Medicine had something effective to offer those suffering from viral but we i know parents need their sleep i have children but the majority of remedies Are really not that of try to Grin and Bear the views expressed Are those of the a practising while Seiden welcomes suggestions for future he cannot treat specific problems by readers should consult their own Send your column ideas to 145 front Street Mesa Cago its about 50 per cent and about half of those who do finish cannot read at a High school the illiteracy rate in Japan is less than one per ours is about 27 per the same number of people die of gunshot wounds in a single Day in the As in an entire year in this says something about their Cul Ture and As far Back As Japan had the seventh lowest infant mortality rate in the the was most recent figures show Japan is we Are still news America Syndicate parents John Rosemond take advice of experts on ritalin by John Rosemond Knight Ridder newspapers after two years of hearing from teachers about his Short attention Span and incomplete our eighty Earold son recently was diagnosed by both his paediatrician and a psychologist As having Atten Tion deficit they recommended that he begin taking a drug they say will help him sit pay and do his Al though we want the problem we have some reservations about using a drug to get him to sit although both the doctor and the psychologist have reassured us that ritalin is fairly harmless and will not create an we still have our can you help us make a decision which is the Brand name for Hydroth is one of three drugs used in treating children with attention deficit the other two Are dexedrine and the disorder is a syndrome with both neurological and behavioural it is characterized by a Short attention Span and poor impulse hyperactivity May or May not be in add children have difficulty paying at finishing work and Are often stimulate although these drugs do help the child sit pay attention and do his they do not they and there fore activity within the Cen trial nervous Why give a stimulant to such a child although the exact mechanics of the disorder Are still it is As if the Childs nervous system is slightly out of these medications energize the nervous system and help it run More the child is therefore better Able to focus on a single screen and Complete of the three medications ritalin is the most widely pre and is generally recognized As the most it May depress a Childs caused some and inter Fere slightly with going to but these reactions usually disappear within a week or High Levels when administered at relatively High Levels during a sustained Peri ritalin has been shown to sup press growth in some this be a Factor at usual therapeutic Levels continued medical followup is important to make sure no growth problems More severe reactions include con fusion or even a reactions this serious Are extremely although it does involve some ritalin is less dangerous than most prescription drugs if administered there is less risk of Side effects with and while some physicians prefer to use it for this ritalin enjoys a better Suc Cess ritalin is but so Are caffeine no need to because ritalin is administered to children in amounts far below what would be necessary to produce the is not a Quick fix for add and should not be used As the sole Means of it addresses the neurological aspect of the but it is most helpful when used with techniques that address the behavioural Side of the depending on the severity of the problem and the age of the the length of treatment varies from several months to several in ritalin is relatively be Nign and can be very helpful toward resolving the disorder when used As part of a Well managed treatment plan involving behavioural if both your paediatrician and psychologist have recommended i would Trust their write to John fourth Winnipeg free 300 Carlan Kic he is unable to answer each letter news papers ;