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...pockets of resistance grow, GM may not have as easy a path through a bankruptcy court as Chrysler has had. Congress may decide to have an extended debate over whether the Treasury has the right to disintermediate bondholders and union workers. If the argument goes on long enough, the auto industry's restructuring could still turn into a liquidation...
Despite the successful marketing of the affliction by activists and interest groups, autism is not a childhood condition. It is nondegenerative and nonterminal: the boys and girls grow up. For all the interventions and therapies and the restrictive diets and innovative treatments, the majority of very low-functioning autistics like Noah will require intensive support throughout their lives. If recent estimates of prevalence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are accurate, then 1 in 150 of today's children is autistic. That means we are in for a vast number of adult autistics - most better adjusted than Noah...
...nonverbal, still lost. As much as I hope that all the autistic boys and girls will get better, and as much as I can encourage their families to fight with all the hope they have, I also know that they will not all recover. The boy or girl will grow up, and there won't be a miracle; instead there will be an effort, something like what my family goes through every day, to figure out what...
Pick your economic metaphors carefully. A few months ago, a close adviser to Britain's Prime Minister was pilloried by her fellow politicians for saying, "I am seeing a few green shoots, but it's a little bit too early to say exactly how they'd grow." Seems some people thought that was an insensitive thing to say on a day when a raft of U.K. companies announced layoffs. After all, seeing "green shoots" means you think the economy is doing pretty well, right? Or does...
...other words, not all green shoots grow into trees...