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BROADER DEFINITIONS Each successive edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--the bible of mental health--has revised the criteria for identifying autism in ways that tend to include more people. Two conditions on the milder end of the autistic spectrum--Asperger's syndrome and the awkwardly named PDD-NOS (pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified)--were added to the DSM in 1994 and 1987, respectively. Grinker and others say 50% to 75% of the increase in diagnoses is coming in these milder categories...
...earlier this year, Islam had found itself represented by essentially one faction in global politics and propaganda: the anti-Western vision of al-Qaeda's Wahhabist ideology. The power of its ability to marshall Arab and Muslim resentment against the West - and against non-Muslims more generally - drowned out milder, more moderate forms of Islam and masked deep divisions within Islam itself...
...been assigned investigator, I’m sure I would have shown up anyway,” Cooper said of the legislation’s potential strain on his social life—and of the hours spent checking in on a particular party. UC Treasurer Ben W. Milder ’08, who checked in on several shindigs in Mather House this weekend, compared the experience to that of a “restaurant critic.” “The host of one party expected me,” he said. “They asked...
...chair of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC), which has traditionally been a stepping stone from which to launch a successful presidential campaign. He is the fifth SAC chair to be elected in the last seven presidential elections, according to UC Treasurer Ben W. Milder...
...fifth SAC chair to be elected in the last seven presidential elections, according to UC Treasurer Ben W. Milder...