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...Your story gave a really helpful overview of the body of research on autism. I was pleasantly surprised to see TIME recognize that studying how mercury in vaccines might affect the body is a legitimate route of inquiry. Your evenhanded comparison of the ABA and Floortime methods was in that same vein. When parents hear a diagnosis of autism, they might assume that their children will never get better. But they do. Martin Bounds Charlotte, North Carolina...
...Hillary and Tenzing were two cheerful and courageous fellows doing what they liked doing, and did, best, and they made an oddly assorted pair. Hillary was tall, lanky, big-boned and long-faced, and he moved with an incongruous grace, rather like a giraffe ... Tenzing was by comparison a Himalayan fashion model: small, neat, rather delicate, brown as a berry, with the confident movements of a cat. Hillary grinned; Tenzing smiled. Hillary guffawed; Tenzing chuckled. NEITHER OF THEM SEEMED PARTICULARLY PERTURBED BY ANYTHING; ON THE OTHER HAND, NEITHER WENT IN FOR UNNECESSARY BRAVADO ... Both devoted much of their lives...
...Institut du Monde Arabe, and farther south is the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art. Spain, too, has been a Nouvel wonderland of late, with the opening last year of both his shimmering Agbar Tower in Barcelona and his new extension for the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. By comparison, Nouvel has been a latecomer to the U.S. After a number of false starts and canceled projects, the Guthrie will be his first completed U.S. commission. (His second, a condo building in New York City, opens later this year...
...number freak. Attach a few of them to a pitcher's or batter's record, and I'm off in Rotisserie or SABRmetrics dreamland. Ahh, slugging percentage! Oooh, WHIP (walks plus hits divided by innings pitched)! Those numbers have meaning, personality, clout. They lend biographical nuance and historical comparison to the game of baseball...
...developmental outcome is rewarding. Ellen Reisel Rishon LeZion, Israel Your story gave a really helpful overview of the body of research on autism. I was pleasantly surprised to see Time recognize that studying how mercury in vaccines might affect the body is a legitimate route of inquiry. Your evenhanded comparison of the ABA and Floortime methods was in that same vein. When parents hear a diagnosis of autism, they might assume that their children will never get better. But they do. Martin Bounds Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. Whatever the cause, autism is treatable, and more and more people will come...