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...Beers went back to Moscow, offering the transitional government $1 billion in exchange for part of the nation's stockpile of Siberian diamonds. Diamonds were a $40 billion retail business by the 1990s. Only one thing could threaten its position-a large supply of stones outside the grasp of the cartel...
Equipped with new findings, researchers are getting a better grasp of autistic minds. Specialists and parents let us know of the challenges in tackling the condition, but also show optimism...
...innovations didn't please every Times solver. "You are sick, sick, sick," goes one of the letters Shortz reads aloud in Wordplay. Another correspondent is polite but perplexed: "This kvetching thing that's going on, I can't seem to get a grasp on it. 'The kvetcher's cry': 'Oy vey'? I don't get it. How is it used? Is it a Northern thing?" But most puzzlers I know are pleased with his work. More than that: he has given fresh life to their daily preoccupation...
Equipped with new findings - including feedback from people with autism - researchers are gaining a better grasp of autistic minds and how to treat them. Specialists and parents eagerly let us know of the challenges in tackling the confounding condition, but also expressed a degree of hope The article on autism [May 29] by Claudia Wallis was very informative and helped correct many misconceptions about autistic children. In India, not much research on autism is under way. I fear that most of those children are taken to be mentally ill or retarded. The statistics on reported cases of autism in India...
...tallish stories, marked by a looping inventiveness and softly colored by a kind of deadpan compassion. I would not for a moment imply that he achieves in them a tragic sense of life, but they are certainly implicitly sympathetic to people whose reach exceeds their emotional grasp and often enough hypnotic in their telling. I'm not saying that a movie can reasonably be expected to come to a halt while Keillor tells one of his stories. But this weightless film needs to have found some equivalent to them , and there were times in A Prairie Home Companion when...