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...novel interesting, I generally stop, no matter how distinguished its literary pedigree. I quit reading “Kristin Lavransdatter” (Sigrid Undset’s Nobel-Prize winning historical romance set in 14th century Norway) after the first sentence, “When the earthly goods of Ivar Gjesling the Younger of Sundbu were divided up in the year 1306, his property at Sil was given to his daughter Ragnfrid and her husband Lavrans Bjorgulfson.” Perhaps I was unfair to Ms. Undset, but I do not regret my escape for a moment...
...rather than the child (the blame-the-parents approach). We moved from New York to Los Angeles in search of a cure for Noah. There, at UCLA, new behavioral programs, the operant-conditioning and discrete-trial therapies that now dominate autism treatment, were being pioneered by psychologists like O. Ivar Lovaas...
...past 20 years, the dominant way to work with autistic children has been based on Applied Behavior Analysis. ABA derives from the classic work of psychologist B.F. Skinner, who showed--mostly in animals--that behavior can be altered with carefully repeated drills and rewards. In 1987, Ivar Lovaas at UCLA published a small study with huge repercussions. He reported that 9 out of 19 autistic children taught for 40 hours a week with behaviorist methods had big jumps in IQ and were able to pass first grade; only 1 out of 40 in control groups...
...most celebrated operators were Samuel Insull and Ivar Krueger, a.k.a. the Swedish "Match King," both of whose faces appeared on the cover of this very magazine. Insull erected a Rube Goldberg-like structure of 65 companies that operated utilities in 32 states, and by 1932 it had completely collapsed in a $750 million loss for investors. Krueger's ventures came to a similar end, and the Match King snuffed himself...
...Ivar Tombach, an AeroVironment vice president, marvels at MacCready's "intense curiosity and incredible capacity to take little fragments of information and synthesize something totally unexpected out of them. A news clipping, a little thing on the evening news, something that he sees while going down the street." Often, while driving with Tombach, MacCready will suddenly look out the window and exclaim, "Look at the bird. See what he's doing...