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Shedding Light on Adult Autism Karl Taro Greenfeld expresses many of the emotions felt by parents and siblings of adults with autism [May 25]. The medical community's response has long been geared toward children. The attitude toward adults with autism has been one of intolerance, which leads to medicating with drugs that are inappropriate for the disorder. Patricia Morin, FAIRFAX...
...history, the city's spiritual renewal is happening every day. There are now hundreds of women dressed like Husic and her friends in Sarajevo, where such styles had long since yielded to Western fashion. Last year Sarajevo's city council launched an option of religious education for children in kindergarten; so far only Islam is on offer. The city's mosques are packed, including the huge King Fahd Mosque and cultural center, which Saudi Arabia built in 2000 - at a cost of about $12 million - and still maintains. And in April, investors from the Gulf opened a $55 million upmarket...
Though there is little talk of the war in Sarajevo today, religious leaders trace Bosnia's Islamic revival directly to the horrors people witnessed in the 1990s, when they were children. "This generation grew up overnight," says the country's Grand Mufti, Mustafa Efendi Ceric. "We had an entire generation asking, 'Does God exist?' And now we have a generation that is very religious." Husic and her friends bear that out. As young girls, they watched their hometown of Mostar become ripped apart as lifelong neighbors turned against each other in a spiral of ethnic enmity; two of the four...
Mindell, a psychology professor at Saint Joseph's University and associate director of the Sleep Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, gathered sleep data on nearly 30,000 children up to 3 years old in 17 countries - among them, some that were predominately Caucasian (including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and others that were predominately Asian (such as China, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan and Korea). In the U.S. and other mostly Caucasian countries, Mindell found that only 12% of parents reported bed-sharing, and 22% reported room-sharing. But in Asian countries the numbers were much...
...pictures of children's cars at LIFE.com...