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...report in the current issue of Pediatrics helps fill in the gap, providing the first randomized, controlled trial - the most rigorous kind of study - of a comprehensive autism treatment that appears to work well for children as young as 18 months. While none of the children in the study were "cured" of autism, those receiving two years of intensive therapy achieved major leaps in IQ score, big improvements in their use of language and significant gains in their ability to handle the kinds of everyday tasks necessary for a child to function at school and at play...
...final six minutes of the period, Harvard appeared at the foul line five times–picking up seven points from the stripe–to begin closing the double-digit scoring gap...
...needs to hear from friends, notes Anoush Ehteshami, a professor at the Centre for Iranian Studies at Durham University in England. Since Iran does not appear to be listening to the West, especially not the United States, on the issue, the emergence of interlocutors who could help bridge the gap between the two sides ought to be welcomed. "Hearing [these messages] from Lula will be a little bit better received than if it were coming from U.S. President or E.U. leaders," Ehteshami says...
...sophomore went two-for-two, Army’s Miller gave the team insurance with a two-point trip to the line of his own. Harvard freshman Kyle Casey would score to bring the lead back down to two, but the Crimson would be unable to close the gap again. With seven seconds left, Crimson co-captain Jeremy Lin sent Simmons to the line once more...
Nonetheless, the choice of Van Rompuy and Ashton was seen as exposing the gap between the E.U.'s ambition and its grandiose rhetoric. "They might both be very capable, but neither has any sort of international profile or experience," says Marco Incerti, Head of Communications at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), a Brussels-based think tank. "At the moment, it looks like two nobodies. But this is what comes of trying to please everyone when you choose these jobs...