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...AUTISM RATES UP? No, the new reports do not show a higher incidence. Instead, they add to a growing body of evidence that suggests the old wait-and-see approach has been wasting valuable treatment time...
...From time to time over the years Puryear has even edged into producing recognizable objects. As early as 1981 he made Desire, a giant wagon wheel connected by a long wooden spoke to an upright basket-weave stanchion, a thing forever in orbit around a center it can't approach. But lately he has been introducing into his work more of what he calls "things with a previous life in the world": wheels, tree trunks and even wheelbarrows that are found objects and that come into his art trailing associations...
...working alone, taking on the world with a great vision of what he can do, but without a lot of overt backing." If that bothers Moreno-Ocampo, he doesn't show it. Finishing his coffee, he tells me that the ICC is helping to establish a new approach to international relations, in which states interact "on the basis of laws, not on the concept of friends and enemies. There are still criminals, but no enemies. That is the idea." Moreno-Ocampo is working to make the idea real...
...embraced compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) and less packaging. For instance, by next May, to save energy and space, the company will stock only concentrated detergents. In a high-efficiency prototype near Kansas City, Mo., the company is testing LED-illuminated refrigerator cases that don't light up until you approach them, so the lights stay off 40% of the time. Elsewhere it is testing solar panels and windmills...
...newest medical-insurance plan, for instance, offers associates the chance to buy family coverage for $14 to $21 a month. But the deductible is $2,000--a huge outlay for a cashier earning $17,000 a year. Wal-Mart says this Value Plan is the most cost-efficient approach for 70% of its associates, many of whom have other coverage through either a family member or the state. Fewer than 10% of its associates lack health insurance, the company says...