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...This has been portrayed as Round 15 in the fights over religion and science. It's the kind of thing that can make a parent crazy: you mean my child might be denied a potentially life-saving vaccine because it could sabotage an "abstinence only" message - which, as the National Organization for Woman suggested, "presumably relies on a fear of cancer death to promote abstinence...
...were a parent reading the article, I would come away with the idea that ABA is an outdated procedure that is limited to only teaching rote skills. Nothing is mentioned of the many recent research studies that show children with autism learning to be socially indistinguishable from their peers after ABA therapy. ABA has been scientifically proven to be a very effective method in teaching social skills and awareness to all learners, not just autistic individuals. Toby Mountjoy, Associate Director Autism Partnership Hong Kong...
...China and Thailand that share their names and advertise a British-style education. Harrow now receives "six figures" per annum and Dulwich a "sizable amount" from their franchises abroad, say school officials. They are frank about wanting the money: with their operating costs increasing and the fees they charge parents rising faster than household incomes, something has to give. For Dulwich's headmaster, Graham Able, the franchises represent "a significant contribution" toward a goal of reinstating, within 15 years, the needs-blind admission policy that set Dulwich apart in the 1960s and '70s. Famous brands in new locations bring other...
...wisdom "The son becomes the father, and the father becomes the son," Singer establishes his own film's central relationship. It is not romantic, between Lois and Clark. It's familial--the bond of two sets of fathers and sons: Jor-El and Superman, then Superman and Jason. Each parent tells his child that he must surpass the old man's feats, improve on Dad's legend. Poignantly, this strength, this divinity, isolates Superman from Earth's humans. He can save them but not be one of them. Lois can love him but never understand...
Every new parent knows that having a baby means weeks without sleep. Should it also mean weeks without a paycheck? That's the stark choice confronting Shannon Thomas, 21, a preschool teacher in southeastern Massachusetts. Her employer, the Boys and Girls Club of Taunton, agreed to hold her job for about six weeks after her June 18 due date but didn't offer any paid maternity leave. "My rent, food, the hospital--those costs aren't going away," Thomas says. So she quit her $500-a-week job three weeks ago and applied for state welfare assistance. "I'd rather...