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...reply, 'That's interesting,'" says Anne. "'because he talks all the time, can't follow instructions and hasn't completed a single task.'" Other parents consult child psychologists, speech and music therapists and sundry other specialists, desperate to unlock their child's potential. "Sorry," says Anne, "no therapist can fix an average IQ." Parents tend to retreat a little once their child reaches high school, though subject choices in the senior years can fire them up again. "It's often dads who will be absolutely determined that their daughter do (advanced) maths," says Vicki Waters, principal of St. Margaret...
...that earned him acclaim. Exclamation marks are everywhere, and Friedman coins several clever and useful monikers. “Developing Countries Anonymous,” for instance, expresses the need for underdeveloped countries to engage in self-reflection, openly avow their lack of development, and then consciously choose to fix it. He also intersperses personal accounts of minor technological enlightenment—realizing that he can print his boarding pass at home, for instance—that provide a welcome air of self-deprecation to countervail the author’s reverence for his own “Columbus-like?...
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt, organized a conference in Williamsburg, Va., to address the issue. Co-sponsored by ABC News and supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the summit called together 400 leaders in the medical, corporate and public-policy fields to unravel how Americans got themselves into such a fix and how to get out of it. Last week the American Diabetes Association named Naughton, along with childhood nutritionist Christina Economos and professor of nutrition Miriam Nelson, its Women of Valor for 2005. Said Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: "Eileen sets very high standards...
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Still, she might return to Shamrock every now and then to make a few bucks, she says. Sage and the other women might try to leave Shamrock’s world, but they almost inevitably return, lured back by the quick fix...