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...connect with their autistic siblings - but the good news is that typical siblings often turn out to be more compassionate and caring than average. "These siblings have seen what it's like to have a hard time in life," says Sandra Harris, executive director of Rutgers University's Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center, a program for people with autism spectrum disorders and their families, and author of Siblings of Children with Autism: A Guide for Families (Woodbine House...
...amazing truth that I had never shared," says Kneisley. In most ways a traditional sleep-away camp--her son loved canoeing--Camp Quest also taught Damian critical thinking, world religions and tales of famous freethinkers (an umbrella term for atheists, agnostics and other rationalists) like the black abolitionist Frederick Douglass...
...memorable women at the beginning of each chapter, the lucid transitions and apparent connections begin to unravel near the end. True, she makes her point clear: there have been many examples of women who have earned the right to have their names alongside those of George Washington or Frederick Douglass. But at times, Ulrich’s awkward shift from a two-sentence summary of one woman to a brief mention of another woman diminishes the achievements of each; the reader has to transition so quickly from one story to the next that the details, while presented in full...
...event was jointly sponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS), the Sociology Department, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. “The Moynihan report, I think, did not get a fair hearing. For that reason, we organized this conference today,” said Douglass S. Massey, president of the AAPSS. Massey organized the event with Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson. The evening began with speaker James Q. Wilson, a former Harvard professor and Moynihan’s close friend, who said the deceased politician never assigned blame to individuals for the often high...
Sometimes the payoff is extraordinary. Four years ago, Adele Douglass, 60, cashed out her $60,000 401(k) to launch a nonprofit that certifies meat from humanely treated farm animals. She wasn't in it to earn a good return; she wanted to make a difference. Last year more than 14 million farm animals were raised under her guidelines--up from 143,000 in her first year. Now her Humane Farm Animal Care in Herndon, Va., is attracting enough support for her to take a better salary than she earned at her last job, with the American Humane Association...