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...rate on academic measures and virtually no gains in social behavior. Others, meanwhile, have devised new ways of working with autistic kids. One of the best known was developed by child psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan, who spent 15 years studying infant development at the National Institute of Mental Health. His method, called DIR (developmental, individual-difference, relationship based), has as its premise the idea that an exchange of emotional signals, initially between mother and infant, form the basis for learning in childhood. Greenspan trains parents and teachers to engage the emotions of even the most withdrawn toddlers by getting down...
...letter, which is dated last Monday, Kirby wrote that the online method “gave students more time for considered responses, and the very high participation rate has convinced the College to move the CUE fully online...
...letter, Kirby wrote that the online method “gave students more time for considered responses, and the very high participation rate has convinced the College to move the CUE fully online...
...with the jury’s findings. But the biggest winner yesterday was Ariad Pharmaceuticals, a small firm that was exclusively licensed the patent by Harvard, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the other plaintiffs in the case. In the 1980s, scientists from those institutions discovered a method of treating diseases by regulating the activity of a molecule called NF-kB—a transcription factor involved in protein production. When the discovery was eventually awarded a patent in 2002, Ariad and the three institutions sued Eli Lilly in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts...
...against me and several other pro-Israel writers. The false charge was that I found several quotations—by Mark Twain, Lord Peel, and others—in a secondary source, but cited them to the primary sources in which they originally appeared. That is the citation method approved by The Chicago Manual of Style. Moreover, I cited the secondary source eight times and was using several of the quotes years before the secondary source was even published. I can document highly visible anti-Israel writers who have done exactly the same thing I was accused of doing...