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...Disease Control and Prevention. Some of the spike can be reasonably attributed to a new, broader definition of the disorder, better detection, mandatory reporting by schools and greater awareness of autism among doctors, parents and educators. Still, there's a nagging sense among many experts that some mysterious X-factor or factors in the environment tip genetically susceptible kids into autism, though efforts to pin it on childhood vaccines, mercury or other toxins haven't panned out. Genes alone can't explain it; the identical twin of a child with autism has only a 70% to 90% chance of being...
...Enter Michael Waldman, of Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. He got to thinking that TV watching - already vaguely associated with ADHD - just might be factor X. That there was no medical research to support the idea didn't faze him. "I decided the only way it will get done is if I do it," he says. Waldman and fellow economists Sean Nicholson of Cornell and Nodir Adilov of Indiana University-Purdue were also undeterred by the fact that there are no reliable large-scale data on the viewing habits of kids ages 1 to 3 - the period when...
Last night’s debate might not have ordinarily made my cut. But I was lured to this event by two things. One was the fact that the topic of this debate was unequivocally salient for many members of the campus community. The other factor was the representative groups chosen. The Campus Political Society ought to be commended for not making the artificial distinction between political groups and lifestyle-oriented groups...
While a lot of the smooth jazz blunders seem to come in the middle of the second disc, even the rest of the tracks seem like throwbacks to a time that to many younger listeners just sounds too eighties. “Dara Factor Two” opens with the brushes of a synth-heavy pop song and can’t manage to recover, conjuring up images of neon pink and black outfits and primitive special effects in music videos...
...What we're really seeing in all these numbers is that America still loves family - we just don't want to live under the same roof. We have the financial resources to live apart, and in fact money is the driving factor behind all of these choices. Moving to Florida is expensive; so is living in a nursing home. We do it because we can afford to. Divorce is also expensive - it's a decision to maintain two households, rather than one. Women have their own careers and their own source of income - so they can afford to leave crappy...