Morning News: Hyperactive Kids Just Need a Nap

Madeline Holler — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:30:00 GMT

You'd think that if sleep caused hyperactivity, those with ADHD would just settle down and get over it. But it's not that easy. However, Canadian researchers think they've found a connection between how much sleep a child with ADHD gets and the severity of the disorder. We'll take any excuse for extra downtime.

In other news this morning, we've got Meghan McCain's love life, laws inspired by Octomom, Madoff's generous concessions, and where all the crappy economic news leaves Obama's popularity rating.

Plus, a picture of the world's ugliest cat.

Nobody's buying nothing these days. Home sales plunged 7.7 percent last month even though prices are supposedly more affordable now than they've been in four decades (nationwide average, we presume, as prices in the way overinflated areas are still -- now don't get made, home sellers -- overinflated. Auto sales are lower than they've ever been in 30 years.

Citibank wants to help unemployed mortgage holders. They're lowering payments for their jobless clients -- as low as $500 for some. The price break would be for three months at most. Anybody out there actually benefiting -- or preparing to benefit -- from bailout programs? Please share the details in comments.

Also feeling generous is pyramid investor Bernard Madoff. After losing billions for close friends and family in his fun little ponzi scheme, he has agreed to give up his investment company (worth, what? Anything?), the company's artwork, a "entertainment" tickets. In return, he'd like to keep his $7 million apartment, hold on to $62 million dollars in assets, and not rot in hell. Good luck with that, Bernie!

Even though some (Republicans!) have been skeptical about how President Barack Obama is handling the economic crisis, the president (going on his sixth week) has hit an all-time high in favorability. Interestingly, Republicans' favorability is at an all-time low.

Also at an all-time low is Republican Meghan McCain's romantic life. She explains in her Daily Beast column that politics indeed make for strange bedfellows -- or they probably do, but it appears she can't even get that far. Turns out, Obama supporters turn her off as do fans of her Dad's. What's a single gal to do? May we suggest scanning Ron Paul's list of potential voters?

Or Meghan, nothing wrong with living the life of a cat lady. Here's your starter pet:

Finally, Georgia legislators have introduced the "Octomom bill," which would limit the number of embryos that can be transferred into a woman's uterus for an in-vitro procedure. Sure, fine, about time we got some regulation. But here's my question: CNN and many other respectable news organizations continue to use the word "implant," as in "implanted eight embryos in her uterus." We got ripped a new one and then schooled the first time we used "implanted" instead of "transferred." How do they keep getting away with it? It's just a question ...

Photos: DailyMail.co.uk

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