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Although I have never lived in New Orleans proper, I have worked and spent much time there, experiencing firsthand the city's glory days during the late 1960s and early 1970s and its depressing decline since then. I remember childhood shopping trips with my parents inside the big, bright, block-long department stores that once lined Canal Street. My parents did their monthly grocery shopping at the cavernous Schwegmann's supermarkets in the city and treated my younger sister and me to movies and a few Mardi Gras parades there. Without us, my mother and father enjoyed frequent weekend excursions...
...whole life has been a speed bump." HILLARY CLINTON, Democratic Senator from New York, on failing to achieve her childhood ambitions of becoming an Olympic athlete, an astronaut, a doctor, a scientist or a mathematician...
...institutions. But environmental factors may also be contributing to the spike. To get to the bottom of that mystery and others, federal funding for autism research has more than tripled in the past decade, to $100 million, although it pales in comparison with the estimated $500 million spent on childhood cancers, which affect fewer youngsters...
...releasing a study that showed that even the low level of mercury used in vaccines preserved with thimerosal, long a suspect in autism, can trigger irregularities in the immune-system cells - at least in the test tube. But he does not regard thimerosal (which has been removed from routine childhood vaccines) as anything like a smoking gun. "There's probably no one trigger that's causing autism from the environmental side," says Pessah, "and there's no one gene that's causing...
...psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan, who spent 15 years studying infant development at the National Institute of Mental Health. His method, called DIR (developmental, individual-difference, relationship based), has as its premise the idea that an exchange of emotional signals, initially between mother and infant, form the basis for learning in childhood. Greenspan trains parents and teachers to engage the emotions of even the most withdrawn toddlers by getting down on the floor and entering the child's world, helping turn repetitive acts like lining up blocks into playful interactions. He describes the method, also called Floortime, in a new book, Engaging...