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ROUTINE AUTISM SCREENING WAS RECOMMENDED LAST YEAR. WHAT'S NEW? Pediatricians are now being??told to routinely screen all children--not just those with symptoms--for autism at their 18-month and 2-year checkups...
...Garcetti is used to being??in front of the cameras. As a former district attorney for Los Angeles County, the suave prosecutor with silver hair and movie-star looks faced the media in practically every big homicide case of the 1990s, from O.J. Simpson to the Menendez brothers. But shortly after Garcetti lost a re-election bid five years ago, his career made a sharp turn. Today he can be found behind the lens, working as a professional photographer, with three acclaimed books to his credit as well as gallery exhibitions and a profitable side business selling prints...
Most outlandish and un-American of all?and disturbing to those who believe that growth in energy use is a necessary element in the improvement of society's well-being???conservation, however limited, is beginning to be a hopeful factor in the nation's energy calculations. To what degree the flammable situation in the Middle East, the world's largest oil- producing region, plays a part remains uncertain. Price is a key factor and it keeps going up. Administration officials are confident that heating-oil supplies are sufficient to tide the nation through the winter, despite the U.S. declaration...
...they cannot be ignored," says Nader, chopping his hands, as he often does when he speaks. "There is a revolt against the aristocratic uses of technology and a demand for democratic uses. We have got to know what we are doing to ourselves. Life can be ?and is being???eroded." To prevent that erosion, he unmercifully nags consumer-minded U.S. Senators, pushing them to pass new bills. When their committees stall, he phones them by day, by night, and often on Sundays. "This is Ralph," he announces, and nobody has to ask, "Ralph whoT...
...Five years of poverty, five years of awful struggle, and now the earth was mine?rich at last, richer than I had ever dreamed of being???$1,000 a week net, and every week adding to it by leaps and bounds?$50,000 a year and all mine?next year $60,000, then $70,000 and $100,000?$1,000,000, maybe?great heavens, and it was real...