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Grinker, whose 15-year-old daughter is autistic, concedes that there's something reassuring about the idea of an epidemic: "Thinking about any disorder as an epidemic is easier than thinking about it in terms of multiple causes, shifting definitions and a scientific reality we are only just beginning to understand." Besides, if a disease suddenly spikes, it seems more plausible that the increase could be reversed--if only we could find the mysterious environmental trigger. With autism, though, that hopeful scenario seems just too simple...
...month on that offshore Soviet rig. Since joining the pipeline project in 2003, he has bought a car for himself and for his father, who worked in Soviet oil production for 30 years. But the real test of how Azerbaijan has changed will be the future of Mirza's daughter, who is now 10. "When all our oil is finished, say, in 50 years from now, there should be no problems for her." So until then, party on, Baku...
...congenital corruption and violent tendencies - have been getting in the way of Bangladesh's progress for a decade and a half. Khaleda Zia, 61, heads the Bangladesh National Party and is the widow of assassinated President Ziaur Rahman; and Sheik Hasina, 59, leads the Awami League and is the daughter of Bangladesh's first President, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Zia blames Hasina's Awami League for her husband's killing, while Hasina believes Zia's husband knew of the plot to kill her father and brothers. Three years ago former U.S. President Jimmy Carter tried to get the two women...
...parents write on the blog defending their decision, "makes it more possible to include her in the typical family life and activities that provide her with needed comfort, closeness, security and love: meal time, car trips, touch, snuggles, etc." They stress that the goal was "to improve our daughter's quality of life and not to convenience her caregivers...
...important, but is it really so much harder to hug someone who is 5 ft. 6 in. or take her to the table at dinnertime? Turning people into permanent children denies them dignity and whatever subtle therapeutic benefit comes from being seen as adults. "I know they love their daughter," says Julia Epstein, communications director for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund and mother of a disabled child. "But they refer to her as the pillow angel. I know that's meant to be a sweet term, but it's terminally infantilizing...