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Public understanding of autism research suffers from two perennial complications: correlational studies and press releases. The report cited in your story is the latest example of both these foibles. The correlational style of argument is as apt to establish that, say, ice-cream sales cause homicides, since both peak at the same time of year. The long list of supposed causes of autism touted in the press has given parents false hope or, worse, false guilt, while damaging autism science and the public's trust...
What's more, O'Brien has done some island hopping. Digicel boasts 3 million subscribers in 22 countries throughout the Caribbean, Latin America and the South Pacific, as well as more than $600 million in revenues for the last fiscal year. In early 2007, he plans to establish Digicel in at least three new countries, including the one that might be overly ambitious, even for O'Brien: the U.S. and its $100 billion cell-phone market. O'Brien says he sees an underserved population, noting stats from the International Telecommunications Union that show only about 68 phones for every...
...with the game. “We wanted to set a tone for the rest of the season that nobody’s going to come into our home gym and control the tempo of the game,” Cusworth said. “We really wanted to establish homecourt dominance.”“We have to reestablish a level of play right now from the beginning of the year on the homecourt, which is what we did in the non-league [schedule] last year but didn’t do in the Ivy League...
...wanted to set a tone for the rest of the season that nobody’s going to come into our home gym and control the tempo of the game,” Cusworth said. “We really wanted to establish homecourt dominance...
...other parts of the country, of course, Democrats like former football star Heath Shuler in North Carolina did win tight races after working hard to establish credentials as conservative as those of the Republican incumbents they beat. But Chuck Todd, editor of The Hotline - the National Journal's daily briefing on politics - pointed out that even conservative Democrats like pro-life and anti-gun control Bob Casey, who defeated Sen. Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, campaigned loudest on traditional Democratic themes like economic insecurity, the minimum wages and the expansion of health care...