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...gratuitous strip teases, glib drug abuse, cringe-inducing 9-11 gags, and blasphemous musical interludes. Fun for the whole family? Hell no. But, depending on how easily you’re offended, a lot of fun nonetheless.This musical, directed by Vanessa A. Pope ’07, took its basic premise from Hal Ashby’s 1971 May-December romance movie “Harold and Maude” which chronicles the tortured relationship between a spry octogenarian (Maude) and her moribund twenty-something lover (Harold). In “Maude and Harold,” the genders...
...different regions of Russia and Mikhail Kuchment, the commercial director, says the plan is to open 20 more in 2006 and hit the 100 mark by the end of 2007. About 25% of M.Video's sales are credit financed. "A majority of customers in big cities already have basic products such as TVs and fridges," he says. "Nowadays it's more a question of replacement, or selling DVDs or plasma TVs." Food retailing has also taken off. A couple of the bigger Moscow supermarket operators, Seventh Continent and Pyaterochka, are already publicly listed on the stock exchange. Several rivals...
...AUTISTIC BRAIN Whether the cause is maternal antibodies, heavy metals or something else, there is no question that the brains of young children with autism have unusual features. To begin with, they tend to be too big. In studies based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and basic tape-measure readings, neuroscientist Eric Courchesne at Children's Hospital of San Diego showed that while children with autism are born with ordinary-size brains, they experience a rapid expansion by age 2 - particularly in the frontal lobes. By age 4, says Courchesne, autistic children tend to have brains the size...
...these differences reflect fundamental pathology, or are they downstream effects of some more basic problem? No one knows. But the fact that early intervention brings better results for children with ASD could be a clue that some of the odd brain anatomy and activity are secondary - and perhaps even preventable. Studies that look at whether early therapy might help normalize the brain are beginning at York University in Toronto, but results are probably years away...
Taylor says 29% of her students, most from ages 5 to 8, get mainstreamed into regular schools, generally with an aide. Many who remain at Alpine have limited language skills; some of the older students use electronic devices to express basic desires. The ritualistic behavior that is characteristic of autism is strongly suppressed. "Hands down," says a teacher to a child who begins to flap. "We're not a culture that accepts that," says Taylor. "Fifty percent of the battle is addressing behavior to look good...