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...treatment is a marked departure from what until quite recently was standard practice in the field. Many doctors either offered parents hopeless-sounding diagnoses, such as autism or mental retardation, or dismissed their concerns as neurotic, telling them that their children would simply grow out of it. That message infuriates specialists like Shipon-Blum, who agrees that children with untreated SM may eventually manage to communicate in social situations but insists that without addressing the precipitating factors behind the mutism, debilitating anxieties are likely to persist into adulthood. "They may develop methods of coping, but are they happy and functioning...
...think all the people who profited from Nasdijj's fraud should take heed of that lesson and issue public apologies to Native Americans in general and to Navajo in particular. And I hope we won't be waiting for that apology as long as the rivers flow, the grasses grow and the winds blow...
...j18.6 billion bid for Europe's steel champion, Luxembourg-based Arcelor. Naturally, such predictions depend on a huge number of assumptions that could easily be wrong. Both nations could be derailed by geopolitical instability or Western protectionism. Both need to overcome enormous regional disparities of wealth and spread their growing prosperity more evenly among their populations. Davos had a well-attended session that focused on the wave of protests against corrupt officials in Chinese towns and villages. Some experts, including Orit Gadiesh, chairman of consultants Bain, says this competition misses the point: the world economy is not a zero...
...sounds like a recipe for economic disaster: oil prices soared, while central banks across the world hiked interest rates. But last year the global economy defied gloom-and-doomsayers and continued to grow robustly. The combination of big-spending U.S. consumers and a booming China that feeds the Western appetite for low-priced products resulted in a second consecutive year of worldwide growth, estimated at more than 4%. That's the strongest two-year growth period in three decades, and there's more good news to come: the world economy is on track to enjoy another bumper year...
...helping to restore confidence: exports rose by 17.5%, more than expected, while imports surged by 27%, reflecting healthy domestic demand and higher oil prices. Overall, the Japanese economy grew by an estimated 2.6% in 2005, and despite a huge budget deficit and heavy debt most forecasters expect it to grow by at least 2.2% this year. Despite stock-market jitters caused by a scandal this month at Internet company Livedoor, Goldman Sachs even estimates Japan's economy could grow slightly more strongly than last year. And in Germany, business confidence is at its highest point since May 2000, according...