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...hallways are filled with the sounds of kids talking and playing. The walls are festooned with banners, photographs and artwork. Parents always ask whether it's too much stimulation, says director Monica Osgood, but the school wants its students to adapt to the "real world." Celebrate the Children (CTC), which costs $47,856 a year--paid by the state--is one of a growing number of DIR schools. It opened its doors in Stanhope, N.J., in January 2004 with just three students. It now has 41, from toddlers to teens, and is still expanding fast...
...CTC emphasizes the expression of emotion and spontaneous thinking. Rather than work on a highly specific skill, DIR activities tend to include complex social interactions that build many skills at once. In a classroom for 5-to-9-year-olds, eight kids sit in a circle playing a game in which they pick an activity card and a card showing a classmate's face. Children earn cheers as they perform the designated activity with that classmate (giving Olivia a high five, hugging Alex). Instead of tangible rewards, shouts of encouragement, a sense of accomplishment and what Greenspan calls the "warm...
...core of CTC is Floortime, one-on-one, child-directed play periods. In one such session, David, 6, goes down a slide again and again. Each time he reaches the top of the ladder, a teacher playfully blocks his way, leading this very passive child to make eye contact and make his wishes known. "She wants him to move her hand or say 'Move' and be intentional," explains Lauren Blaszak, CTC's assistant director. "She's got an agenda; he doesn't know it. He keeps going back for more because it's fun." Building social interactions this...
...ship, the Belleau Wood, has been in the area since August. Sources tell TIME the U.S. is looking to use the port of Assab in Eritrea as a naval base to keep an eye on traffic between Yemen, Sudan and Somalia. At home, the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC) now has a staff of 1,100 analysts and covert operatives, almost triple the number it had a year ago. Technologists are working on new gadgets to track terrorists, as well as hardware to process the 75,000 cables that come into the CTC from field offices each month...
...hiding along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Since 1995, the center has had a special station devoted to bin Laden, made up of more than 50 CIA officers who have studied everything they could find on the man. Even though his top command has been cut almost in half, the CTC's officers know that bin Laden remains a powerful enemy. His 14 senior lieutenants still at large are on the run, but according to the CIA, they are plotting and sending out orders to a terrorism network that may still number in the thousands. The CTC, fearful of another strike...