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...their same industry. If a worker had accumulated skills that were specific to that industry, then can't find a job in that industry, those skills lose their value. So that may knock down workers for a long time because it's difficult to reaccumulate skills. That can explain a third to half of the losses. (Read "The Truth About High-Frequency Trading...
...study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In an unusual show of attention and concern, top officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health and the CDC held a press conference on Oct. 2 in which they attempted to explain the new numbers, allay concerns and assure the public that substantial government resources are being devoted to understanding autism. (See pictures of the world of autism...
...clear, however, that these factors can entirely account for the dramatic rise in autism numbers. "I don't think we can explain away all of the increase with these artifacts," said Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, in discussing the new studies at Friday's press conference. "Buried in these numbers there may be a true increase...
HRSA researcher Michael Kogan, the lead author of the study, admitted that it was hard to explain these vanishing cases of autism - which is by definition a lifelong condition. Yet nearly 40% of children who were diagnosed with autism, according to parents, no longer had the condition. It may be that such children received the autism label "to facilitate services for other conditions such as developmental delays," Kogan said. Or it could be that children were only tentatively classified as having ASD when they were very young and then the disorder was ruled out. (Read "Inside the Autistic Mind...
...Since then, the Irish government secured quasi-legal guarantees on questions of neutrality, abortion laws and Irish tax rates, issues that had raised disquiet among Irish voters. The Yes campaign had also worked harder to explain the treaty, while well-known businessmen, such as Michael O'Leary of Ryanair and Jim O'Hara, boss of Intel Ireland, have added their voices in support...