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...often, what's lost in all the finger-pointing over what's to blame for the problem is the salient question of how to fix it. A paper just published in the journal Brain Research Reviews is taking a stab at that, suggesting a brand-new strategy - one that focuses on a very particular part of the brain. (See pictures of a school for autistic students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Fever Helps Autism: A New Theory | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...should look at the signaling pathways in the region of the brain involved," Purpura says. "Then we could look at treating the receptor sites with some kind of pharmacotherapy." For once, the step that's missing from a proposal is the one that involves shouting about what's to blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Fever Helps Autism: A New Theory | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...convenient and long-standing tradition in Mexico to blame its problems on the U.S.--and one that's now finding agreement from surprising quarters. "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade," declared U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton en route to Mexico on March 25. "Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border ... causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians." Mexico has seen more than 7,000 drug-related killings since early 2008, and the violence now threatening to spill north hasn't escaped attention. Late last year, somewhat hyperbolically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...Deregulators had their way, and the situation today is their consequence,” Frank said. “[And] they blame the victims...

Author: By Crystal Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mass. Rep. Calls for Financial Regulation | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...can’t fairly blame all of GM’s decades-long troubles on a man who has been CEO for only nine years. High cost union contracts and close competition from rivals like Toyota made Wagoner’s job a difficult one. And, to his credit, he closed unnecessary plants, laid off workers, and renegotiated union contracts in an attempt to streamline the company. But he did little to pull his company out of its unsustainable reliance on sales of sport utility vehicles and trucks, which plummeted when gas prices rose to $4 per gallon last...

Author: By Ellen C. Bryson | Title: He’s Leaving, But Not on a Jet Plane | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

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