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Several collections of, and books about, Australian speeches have appeared in recent years. Fullilove's is neither the most political nor encyclopedic, but it is the best and most personal. It's cleverly organized, includes some surprising gems and, as a bonus, sits nicely in your hands. "Our speeches are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 4 Books Beyond the Fray | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

THE CURIOUS INCIDENCE Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which funds much of the nation's autism research, remembers a time when the disorder was rarely diagnosed. "When my brother trained at Children's Hospital at Harvard in the 1970s, they admitted a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Autistic Mind | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

Indeed, most researchers believe autism arises from a combination of genetic vulnerabilities and environmental triggers. An identical twin of a child with autism has a 60% to 90% chance of also being affected. And there's little doubt that a vulnerability to ASD runs in some families: the sibling of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Autistic Mind | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

Thanks to warmer average temperatures, however, plants in some parts of the Netherlands are flowering an average of 16 days earlier in the spring. The birds in West Africa don't know that; they still leave more or less at the usual time. And while the early spring they encounter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Bye Bye Birdies | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

Recent years have brought questions about the ABA model. When Lovaas protégé Tristram Smith tried to replicate the 1987 findings in a 2000 study, he got a more modest success rate on academic measures and virtually no gains in social behavior. Others, meanwhile, have devised new ways of working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Schools | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

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