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...Miller and others have been slowly building a research base. Studies at her SPD Research Institute, adjacent to the STAR clinic, have identified neurological differences between children with sensory-processing problems and typical kids. In one set of experiments, electrodes are attached to children's hands to measure nervous-system activity in response to a series of stimuli that include a siren, a powerful wintergreen scent, the brush of a feather against the cheek--each repeated eight times. A healthy child will show a strong electrodermal response--basically a measure of sweating or stress--to the first exposure but will...
Talk is cheap, and economists and laymen alike have a strikingly poor record of predicting recessions. But there are good reasons to be concerned that the economy is weakening. They involve struggling banks, the collapsing housing market, the volatile stock market, oil prices, the weak dollar and lots of nervous investors in far-off lands. All of which relate back to the financial condition of the people swarming the nation's malls...
...other suitable bidders are found, the British government could decide to nationalize the bank or force it into bankruptcy, stripping shareholders of their investment. Either resolution would further embarrass a government still reeling from criticism of its handling of the early stages of the crisis. In September, nervous pensioners withdrew $4.14 billion in less than a week despite the government's extravagant bailout package, and reassurances from the Prime Minister that the bank was solvent. Eventually, only Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling's statement that the government would guarantee all deposits at the bank stopped...
...network controlled by a tight-lipped governmental matriarch who sits and watches all the events unfold on a wall covered in monitors. Santaros spends half the film fiddling with his fingers a là Mr. Burns of “The Simpsons,” nervous as a squirrel despite his manly, muscled exterior. Kelly preserves his confusing storytelling style by splicing between multiple plot lines. The narration is delivered by Justin Timberlake, who plays Pilot Abilene, an ex-soldier previously stationed in Iraq. Timberlake does a surprisingly good job of portraying a doped-up prophet. In one scene...
...areas of life. As the writer David Malouf points out, we don't even think of ourselves as hedonists because that would be too self-conscious. Australian culture is for the most part deeply democratic, and joyously so as well. It is no longer "provincial," a distant and nervous response to norms generated in imperial centers. It is the result of a bloodless and slow-developing social revolution conducted over 40 years as a small society grew larger and immeasurably more complex, shook off its sense of derivative Englishness and its fear of American domination and learned to trust...