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...managing the care of children with autism. His report supports intensive behavioral and speech therapy - at least 25 hours a week - beginning as early as possible. But, he concedes, there's a lack of rigorous, randomized research on what interventions work best. The report encourages pediatricians not to condemn parents who turn to alternative therapies, but to help guide them toward the safest and best-researched approaches. "Don't just dismiss it out of hand," says Meyers, "It's important to keep communication open and respect the fact that parents are going to be looking for answers...
...deny that Islamic terrorists pose a threat to the West would be shortsighted and wrong. Fundamentalism and religious extremism—regardless of the specific faith that they spring from—have the potential to be oppressive and harmful. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, however, does not only condemn Islamic fundamentalists, it also launches an attack on Islam itself by conflating those who pervert Islam to excuse unspeakable acts of violence with the faith on the whole. TAP’s Web site makes a host of sweeping generalizations, over-dramatizations, and mis-interpretations of Islam. From the suggested film...
Some observers hope U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his envoys can persuade repressive regimes to relent. U.N. officials must certainly use their pulpits to condemn abuses and mobilize international (not simply bilateral) punitive measures. But history has shown that envoys rarely succeed unless the Security Council is united behind them. Until Sudan and Burma begin to hear Chinese footsteps, they will have little incentive to engage in good-faith negotiations...
...brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." The Pope later apologized, saying that he had only used the quote - an opinion which he said he doesn't share - to condemn violence motivated by religion and to highlight the need for exchange and understanding between the faiths...
...Poland, where relations with Germany have rarely been cordial and where ties have deteriorated in recent years, the news was seized on by leading right-wing politicians to condemn him. Grass last year wrote Walesa and the mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamwicz, to explain why he had taken so long to admit the full details of his war record. He said it had taken him until his later years to find the right formula to discuss his decision. "It's only now, with age, that I have found a suitable way of talking about it from a wider perspective...