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...gained from her work on farm animals as well as more exotic zoo animals. Grandin shows a startling tenderness as she teases out what's troubling a wolf who couldn't stop pacing and a herd of antelopes who had panic attacks on their daily walks. (The culprit was a yellow sign; yellow is a scary color for many beasts.) Anybody who thinks autistic people lack empathy should read Animals Make Us Human...
...knows exactly what causes BPD, but the familiar nature-nurture combination of genetic and environmental misfortune is the likely culprit. Linehan has found that some borderline individuals come from homes where they were abused, some from stifling families in which children were told to go to their room if they had to cry, and some from normal families that buckled under the stress of an economic or health-care crisis and failed to provide kids with adequate validation and emotional coaching. "The child does not learn how to understand, label, regulate or tolerate emotional responses, and instead learns to oscillate...
...group was unlikely to have been responsible. Hizballah would probably have fired a much larger fusillade were it looking to join the fight, and it would be unlikely to risk its considerable political gains in Lebanon since the 2006 war by provoking a new Israeli attack. The more likely culprit in this instance is one of the many Palestinian splinter factions based in Lebanon, which is home to some 400,000 Palestinian refugees. Besides sympathizing with their brethren in Gaza, Palestinians in Lebanon have often been used as cannon fodder by regional intelligence agencies, and the impoverished refugee camps where...
...lack of overseas consumer demand for Chinese manufactured electronics. Electronics are shipped closer to the Christmas rush period, he notes, unlike toys and cheaper goods that are sent out months in advance. The fall indicates that weak markets in the U.S. and Europe aren't the only culprit. "To get a decline of this magnitude does suggest that this is a global story," he says...
...waters have been rising precipitously, of course, since the middle of the 20th century. Global warming may be a culprit, but simply cutting carbon emissions isn't going to keep the city from drowning. An immense and intricate flood-control system is in the works. Evocatively called MOSES, an acronym for its Italian name, the $5.3 billion project is about half done, but it's not scheduled for completion till 2014. Financing has slowed construction: at one time, Venice had to sell off some of its venerated palazzi to raise money. But, says Rafael Bras, dean of the engineering school...