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Among the telltale signs of trouble at 12 months: not responding to one's name; not sharing interests through pointing and eye gaze; lack of joyful expression; an absence of babbling; difficulty establishing eye contact; and staring too long at inanimate objects (see FirstSigns.org for more early-warning signs). Investigators have identified these red-flag signs of autism by looking at early home videos of children who were diagnosed at age 3 or later and by studying the younger siblings of children with autism, who have relatively high rates - perhaps 15% - of the disorder. But no single behavior is indicative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Researchers Find First Signs of Autism Even in Infancy | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...symbolize an orgasm. Locker advised women seeking orgasms to explore their body and to masturbate. Event organizer Eva B. Rosenberg ’10 said she was pleased with the turnout and the audience participation, but was disappointed with Locker’s focus on heterosexual sex and the lack of information for gay, transgender, and other queer individuals. “I thought it was a little heteronormative,” Rosenberg said. Locker did bring up gender identity, advising students who felt uncomfortable with their gender to explore while in college. Attendees of both genders were well represented...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Orgasm Seminar Doles Out Tips, Toys | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...most underrated oddities of Harvard is its complete lack of a TV culture. Go visit almost any other school, and televisions are a ubiquitous element of college life. While we've found a way to make due without, and common room viewing has some charm, FlyBy wonders how much studying we'd miss out on if there were Law and Order marathons and VH1 countdowns available at any time...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Park Yourself in Front of a TV | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...Souter's very lack of a firm ideological profile that appealed to Bush. Three years earlier liberal activist groups had derailed the court nomination of the indisputably conservative Robert Bork. If Souter didn't have a long paper trail of court rulings, law review articles and books, it would be much harder for liberals to stage a replay of the Bork defeat. (Read the TIME 100: The World's Most Influential People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evaluating Souter: A Strange Judicial Trip, Leaning Left | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...trader never supplements that intuition by asking her spiritual guide for market advice. "There's an ethic," she says. But with financial institutions the world over suffering the consequences of their collective lack of prescience, mightn't there be an argument for using every possible method to gain foreknowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Anxious London Flocks to Psychics | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

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