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...Among the telltale signs of trouble at 12 months: not responding to one's name; not sharing interests through pointing and eye gaze; lack of joyful expression; an absence of babbling; difficulty establishing eye contact; and staring too long at inanimate objects (see FirstSigns.org for more early-warning signs). Investigators have identified these red-flag signs of autism by looking at early home videos of children who were diagnosed at age 3 or later and by studying the younger siblings of children with autism, who have relatively high rates - perhaps 15% - of the disorder. But no single behavior is indicative...
...been focused on climate change. Species extinction is real and irrefutable while the science regarding climate change is not overwhelming. Sure the climate is changing, but it may not be entirely our fault. But it is our fault that the Tasmanian tiger, the dodo and the elephant bird, among many others, are extinct and that thousands more may go the same way. So let's focus our attention on what we know: that if we don't do something quickly, more and more endangered species will die out. Our impact on the climate can be reversed but extinct species...
...conscious effort to hold their government accountable. The Chakrabortys are part of India's youth vote, a demographic that is too large for any political party to ignore. Of India's 1 billion citizens, 40% are under 18; 70% are under 35. In the cities, voting rates among younger citizens are as many as 20 points lower than they are in rural areas, but growing. "Urban youth is emerging as a key electoral group," says Jai Mrug, an election analyst based in Mumbai. "It could be a huge sample of voters freshly added to the polls." The country's political...
...Truly addressing the needs of India's young people will, of course, require more than just one election. Shekhar Deshmukh, a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation fellow who is studying patterns of migration to the cities, says that he has noticed a hopeful change among young people, even in the poorest villages and urban slums: they question why their lives are as they are. "In this generation they are expressing their views very openly," he says. "Maybe in the next generation they will act. But it will take time...
...presidential library has been the initial focus of nearly every President who left the White House since Harry Truman. The historically fast pace of Bush's fundraising has been all the more remarkable for taking place during a period of economic contraction. "He's struck a very positive nerve among a lot of financial sources across the country," said J. French Hill, a Little Rock banker and major Bush campaign bundler who leads the fundraising effort in Arkansas...