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...announcements came in response to a growing consensus that autism can be picked up very early in life and that early intervention holds the best promise for helping affected children. It is also an admission that, despite an explosion of news on autism in recent years, pediatricians are not currently doing an optimal job of identifying the spectrum of conditions now believed to affect as many as 1 in 150 children. A 2004 survey of primary care pediatricians found, for instance, that only 8% were routinely screening for autism, even though 44% said they saw at least 10 kids with...
...sure, every top communist leader since Mao Zedong has wielded less and less individual power and has been forced to seek consensus on important decisions. Hu is no exception and had to make compromises. He failed, for example, to name Li Keqiang, his favored candidate, as sole successor. Indeed, Li trailed Xi onto the podium Monday, confirming a belief among analysts that, for the moment at least, Xi has a slight edge in the race to lead China. (If previous practice is followed and no unforeseen events intervene, Xi will succeed Hu at the 18th Party Congress in 2012, while...
...Consensus: October is the best and busiest month in American sports. October brings us all the pageantry, history, and tedium of the baseball playoffs. It’s the month when the NFL and college football really start to heat up, and the contenders separate themselves from the pretenders. Finally, at month’s end, the NBA and NHL return—a friendly reminder that winter is just around the corner. The 10th month is also particularly hectic for Harvard students. Seniors are frantically hunting for jobs, juniors are jockeying for student leadership positions, sophomores are praying...
...danger exacerbated by the ANC's own policies of pursuing economic growth without promoting social equality. "A large body of economic thinking suggests that the widening of inequality is one of the inevitable by-products of rapid economic growth in developing countries," he writes. "There is no universal consensus on this, but if inequality really does tend to widen as economies expand, then we had better hope that it is not the principal reason we're so violent. Because it isn't going to get better soon...
...interested in expanding the possibilities for theater, so that representations across culture, gender and sexuality are celebrated,” she said. “Theater as social or political action can be the most empowering.” NEVER-ENDING STORY The consensus that the Five Lesbian Brothers and Split Britches came to after much exchange is that performances never end: Their effects are carried on through both audiences and actors. To drive home this point, Weaver recalled an example of a woman she touched—both figuratively and literally—while playing a vampire...