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This place is the Sensory Therapies and Research [STAR] Center, just south of Denver, which treats about 50 children a week for a curious mix of problems. Some can't seem to get their motors in gear: they have low muscle tone and a tendency to respond only minimally to conversation and invitations to play. Others are revved too high: they annoy other children by crashing into them or hugging too hard. Many can't handle common noises or the feel of clothing on their skin. A number just seem clumsy. Adults can remember kids like these from their...
...these cycles is that very few people will have anything like it. A motorcycle from a custom shop is available in limited quantities. Only 100 Ecosse Heretics have been offered, and production on the Titanium Series RR is capped at 10. "We will continue to produce low numbers despite the wait list," says Atchison. "Once a model or series is complete, a new limited-edition run will take its place...
Meet the American consumer of late 2007. Sure, he's worried. Apart from a brief blip after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the University of Michigan's much watched Index of Consumer Sentiment hasn't been this low since 1992. But buying stuff is what we Americans do. The last outright decline in consumer spending came in 1991, and that was shallow and short-lived. Most indications are that this year's Christmas shopping season will be, if not exactly a blowout, better than the last...
Worrywarts have been saying such things since the mid-1980s without much to show for it. But something changed after 2001, when what had been a long and in retrospect moderate rise in indebtedness exploded into a spectacular binge in mortgage and home-equity lending. It started with super-low interest rates that kept consumer spending rising even as the tech boom of the late 1990s collapsed. But before long, the mortgage boom took on a life of its own, with ever bigger and weirder loans handed out to people who would be able to pay them back only...
...Pakistan. This civil society had long remained passive, but in recent times became more and more critical of Pervez Musharraf’s army-backed rule. The electronic media and the judiciary were refusing to act as his puppets, and his approval ratings were at an all time low. The state of emergency that Musharraf declared on Nov. 3 was thus aimed to preempt civil society from wresting power from him. And while Musharraf has made certain concessions in the aftermath of the declaration, these miniscule measures fall miserably short of securing democracy in Pakistan...