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...minutes. A college dropout, he went on to co-found a hacker's convention in San Francisco. "I was always really weird," he says. Yet it was only two years ago, at age 27, that he learned why. Studying psychological conditions, he determined that he had Asperger syndrome, a mild form of autism, which explained his social difficulties and seemed tied to his obsession with puzzles. Cohen says he has trouble censoring his thoughts and making eye contact but has learned to control his symptoms using behavioral psychology. Now he has a new task: fending off accusations by the Hollywood...
While all that was going on, a colony of about 5,000 tenacious Norsemen was suffering a similar fate thousands of miles to the north. They had audaciously established a settlement on Greenland's comparatively mild southern coast, but they too overextended their environment and paid the price. Among many other blunders, they shortsightedly depleted the local forests (deforestation is a major theme in Collapse), which left them without the wood they needed to smelt iron. Icelanders were stunned when Greenlanders sailed into port in ships held together with wooden pegs and baleen instead of nails...
...years. The Pope was hoarse but in high spirits at Sunday's traditional Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square. Less than 24 hours later, papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls released a statement canceling all of John Paul's appointments for Monday because of what was described as a mild case of the flu. The plugged-in Italian press corps took a light approach to the story by noting that the 84-year-old Pope had caught the same flu bug that had already bitten half of Rome. Tuesday morning another statement cleared the Pope's calendar for the next...
...each province. And for decades, the legislatures rubber-stamped their approval. Following a series of high-profile corruption scandals in 2001, however, some People's Congresses?such as the one in the northeastern city of Shenyang?refused to approve deceptively rosy reports. These votes of no-confidence were pretty mild; they did not, for example, lead to the removal of chastened officials. Even so, that year Beijing began insisting that provincial Party secretaries also become the top leaders of their local parliaments. Since 2002, Hu has increased the number of provincial People's Congresses under such direct Party control from...
BENEFITS: Relieves itching, sneezing, runny nose and watery eyes. RISKS: Depending on the formulation, dry mouth, irritability, nervousness, irregular heartbeat, increased appetite, weight gain. Older types cause drowsiness (and may even be used as mild sleep aids). Children are at greater risk of suffering seizures. Nightmares, irritability and unusual excitement are also more likely to occur in children...