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...serious concern. Wayne E. Beitler, president of the Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association, said that some land to the west of the Weld Hill plot had already been developed into a home for the elderly by the city. “The city built a facility that was very modest, representing to the people that that would be the extent of it,” Beitler said. “But now the whole nine acres is this gigantic concrete building.” He added that the city had justified the expansion by saying that the Weld Hill site next...
...only time in Texas quiz bowl history that a single person answered every question,” he said. “He single-handedly beat the state of Texas in a quiz bowl.” Sulllivan said that Vaz is deceptively modest about his ability to remember facts. “You wouldn’t think he actually knows stuff if you talk to him. You’d think he was kind of an idiot,” Sullivan quipped. Sullivan added that a favorite pastime of Vaz and his friends was to play a drinking...
...Costello had announced immense tax cuts in the past, such as those worth $A12 billion a year accompanying the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax in July 2000. And there had been modest tax cuts and increased family payments aimed at low earners in recent years. Now it's the turn of the top end-and those who one day aspire to be like them. At the start of the decade, the 47 cent tax rate kicked in at an annual income over $A50,000; from this July, the rate will be 45 cents and the income threshold will...
...MAUI, HAWAII: The 43 km of trails through Maui's Haleakala National Park (nps.gov/hale) may seem a modest distance to experienced trekkers, but the varied and dramatic landscape will awe even the most seasoned veteran. From the volcanic Haleakala crater and the lush Oheo Gulch to inviting pools, bamboo forests and the gorgeous 122-m Waimoku Falls, this is one to savor, step by stunning step...
Recent years have brought questions about the ABA model. When Lovaas protg Tristram Smith tried to replicate the 1987 findings in a 2000 study, he got a more modest success 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...