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...think one point [Lessig] was touching on was…moving the issues to the federal level,” said James Losey, a member of the group Open Technology Initiative, which studies the social and economic impact of open technologies. “The qualm is beyond just the content providers...
...think that the financial crisis definitely has a huge impact, but the impact isn’t just that people can’t get well-paying jobs in the private sector,” said IOP President Kenzie Bok ’11. “It’s also that when people think about what kind of meaningful work they could be doing, there’s been a swing back towards the public sector...
...been the facilitation movement, in which "facilitators" supposedly helping nonverbal autistic children type words turned out to be making the statements themselves, and the secretin controversy, in which parents paid thousands of dollars for a hormone believed to successfully treat autism before several clinical trials showed no actual impact. All of these cost parents small fortunes and years of anguish. And all of them are still being practiced by some segments of the autism community today. (See six tips for traveling with an autistic child...
...important to remember that?the first and still the only treatment that has been shown to make a demonstrably positive developmental impact on autistic children started out as a somewhat radical movement. Behavioral therapy - involving methods, not so different from animal-training techniques, that are now known as ABA, PRT (Pivotal Response Training) and a host of other acronyms - was vilified by many, including what was then the mainstream of autism, when it started in the 1960s. After clinical trials produced positive results, it became the basic treatment for autism. But the success rate for this therapy remains painfully...
...this," says Waheed Muzhda, a former Taliban official. "When Mullah Dadullah was killed, some people thought that the Taliban would give up. But it didn't happen, because the Taliban are waging an ideological war, and in an ideological war, this kind of thing doesn't have a big impact." (See a bin Laden family photo album...