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...researchers believe, a central defect, and that is the difficulty people across the autistic spectrum have in developing a theory of mind. That's psychologese for the realization, which most children come to by the age of 4, that other people have thoughts, wishes and desires that are not mirror images of their own. As University of Washington child psychologist Andrew Meltzoff sees it, the developmental stage known as the terrible twos occurs because children--normal children, anyway--make the hypothesis that their parents have independent minds and then, like proper scientists, set out to test...
Mailer will go out this week, though. He is promoting Into the Mirror, a book about Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent arrested last year after 20 years of turning over secrets to the Russians. Turncoats are a natural subject for Mailer, who has always behaved like a man in no hurry to dispose of his own paradoxes and whose last big novel, Harlot's Ghost, was a meditation on the CIA. But Into the Mirror is not exactly by Mailer. It's a novelization by Lawrence Schiller of a Mailer screenplay, based on interviews they both conducted. In July, Schiller...
...There is still the possibility that Hubble will startle us all with a very clear image of the first light. And that would be a neat trick for a telescope that most people were willing to write off as 25,000 lbs. of space junk with a warped mirror in the first years following its launch. That NASA was able to recover from that failure and give us the Hubble of today may be one of the space agency's greatest legacies...
Motorists parking illegally on Harvard property have taken a harder hit in the wallet over the past two weeks, as Harvard Parking Services has raised fines in an attempt to mirror the penalties already imposed by the City of Cambridge...
...RAISED DRIVER'S SEAT A seat cushion will raise a driver to an appropriate height where the eye level is roughly even with the bottom of the rearview mirror...