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...She’s a great player, whatever age she is,” Brogan attests. “She may be a freshman, but she does not play like...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lippert Takes Her Game to The Next Level | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...hearing someone state what they had long suspected. McCarthy may have been promoting her book, but she had inadvertently become the poster mom for a movement. "Jenny gave us a face," says Kim Stagliano, a mother of three autistic girls and one of the founders of the popular blog Age of Autism. "I feel like Jenny going public was pretty brave ... There is a certain personality within the Curebie community [parents who believe they can cure their autistic children], and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Autism Debate: Who's Afraid of Jenny McCarthy? | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...Autism Riddle The history of autism treatments has been too often filled with false hope. There are 730,000 Americans under age 21 who have been diagnosed with autism. But for decades, autism was considered an exceedingly rare disorder and was viewed as a life sentence. In the 1970s, parents sought out a range of alternative and unconventional treatments. There was patterning (in which the autistic child was retaught to crawl), multivitamin therapy, bee-pollen therapy and various restrictive diets. There was the gentleman who claimed he had cured his son by hugging him a lot - he wrote a best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Autism Debate: Who's Afraid of Jenny McCarthy? | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...1960s. After clinical trials produced positive results, it became the basic treatment for autism. But the success rate for this therapy remains painfully low. A recent study by University of Connecticut psychologist Deborah Fein shows that at least 10% of autistic children undergoing ABA can overcome the disorder by age 9, while others show more modest improvement. That makes for a depressing picture for most parents of autistic children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Autism Debate: Who's Afraid of Jenny McCarthy? | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...anti-smoking group, however, disagrees. "The first cigarette is often viewed as a rite of passage toward the adult world and an emancipation," NSR says in a statement on its Web page, noting that while smoking has declined among most age groups, it has risen to 40% of 12-to-25-year-olds. "The campaign seeks to reverse that impression and make people aware that smoking isn't a defiance of authority, but instead a sign of submission and naiveté - a behavioral, psychological and physical submission to an addictive drug that will control their acts, dirty their bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In France, Sex Sells — Even in Anti-Smoking Ads | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

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