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...distractions so that facial expressions and language are more salient. They also learn strategies to calm infants who tend to become agitated and stressed by social activity. The intervention is playful in spirit, says Dawson, adding, "Parents get very confident and are able to learn this quickly." The hope, she says, is that for some significant portion of children at risk, "we can begin before the full autism syndrome is present and prevent it from emerging...
...Groundbreaking for the library is set for November of next year; organizers hope to dedicate and open the doors in early...
Indeed, we hope that students here in the summer might use the closure of the MAC as an opportunity to go outside and see more of Cambridge and Boston. Summer is a rare, welcome gap of time in which exploration off familiar paths is possible. It seems a waste of this opportunity to seclude oneself in a building with other Harvard students during free time. During winter, students have no choice other than to batten down the hatches and stay indoors at all times. Summer is a season to be outside and now, perhaps, to become better acquainted with...
...then, a new source of hope appeared. A campaign pledge from President Barack Obama to close the U.S. facility holding suspected terrorists at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, became an executive order. Quickly, the jail's backers made a new pitch. Why not house those 240 detainees at Two Rivers? Hardin's City Council last week passed a resolution to entice the detainees their way, saying they could provide "a safe and secure environment, pending trial and/or deportation." Hardin naturally assumed their federal politicians would lobby their cause. (See behind-the- scenes pictures of President Obama's first...
...Kistner had given up hope of ever finding his great-aunt's killer. The retired police sergeant was just a rookie at the Long Beach Police Department in California when Maybelle Hudson, 80, was beaten, raped and strangled in her Inglewood garage after returning home from choir practice one day in April 1976. The last time Kistner called detectives at the Inglewood Police Department, in 2006, he was told that given the amount of time that had passed since the twice-widowed woman was murdered, the perpetrator was likely deceased or in prison...