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What's significant is that the study lines up well with other, more rigorous studies finding a 1% rate of autism. "It provides what scientists call convergent validity: no matter how you shake the bushes, you come up with this 1%," says Richard Roy Grinker, an autism researcher at George Washington University who has worked to determine ASD prevalence in South Korea...
...Feature film] was where I wanted to come from. I wanted to be John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Howard Hawks. But I have found in this work--asking over and over again, Who are these strange and complicated people who like to call themselves Americans?--the best job in the country...
...Saturday, the dogs were heading to Pariaman, a remote area close to the epicenter of the 7.6 magnitude tremor, joining search- and-rescue squads from South Korea, Singapore, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. The day before, Pariaman regency's secretary Yuen Karnova received a call late at night informing him that foreign experts had arrived, and he rejoiced, "God bless, help is coming." The chance of finding survivors in the landslides triggered by the quake in that region will be very slim. Still, the Swiss team prepares the dogs for the journey to Pariaman by dunking the dogs...
...court does clear the treaty, President Vaclav Klaus, an avowed opponent of the document, could delay signing. If the delays drag on until spring next year, it could reopen the process in the United Kingdom: the British Conservatives - expected to win a general election next Spring - have promised to call a British referendum on Lisbon if it is not fully ratified by the time they come to power...
Cariocas, as the residents of Rio call themselves, are still reeling from the cost of the last big athletic event held in their city. The budget for the Pan American Games of 2007 was $177 million. It probably cost several times that at the end (some reports estimate it at close to $2 billion). For the biggest athletic event of all, the Rio Olympic organizing committee has set its budget at $2.82 billion, with another $11.1 billion going to related expenses such as transport, power and security. (Another $170 million has been set aside for the Paralympic Games which usually...