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Temple Grandin is America's best-known autistic person, and she's about to become much more famous. On February 6, HBO debuts a feature film that stars Claire Danes as the gawky, socially impaired but brilliant animal scientist who, despite her disability - or in many ways, because of it - has achieved enormous success in two arenas: as designer of humane cattle-handling facilities and an author and outspoken voice on autism. The movie, Temple Grandin, tracks Grandin's early years as a child who had no speech and very little connection to the world at age four, through...
...said he believes that every person has the opportunity to contribute towards what is happening in the world and therefore strives to create content that can inspire and amplify people’s voices...
...terrifying, damaging experiences, which I write about in the afterword. I think what is important is not the experiences people had on these drugs, which can be a trip to heaven or a trip to hell, but what you do with these experiences. Does it make you a better person, more aware, compassionate, less egocentric? These four men all did that in their own way. Their experiences influence...
...wearing ASICS and sporting flimsy nylon gym bags. It was eventually adopted by 50-year-old divorcée art gallery owners with raspy smoker’s voices who wear sunglasses inside and keep their dogs inside their stores. You know the type of person I’m talking about? Take your average HAA concentrator, minus the subtle pedantic braggadocio and flowing scarf, and add about 30-40 years. There. Now we’re on the same page...
...like Israel more [than Egypt] because there's justice," says Ibrahim, a young cement smuggler. "If you are a person living inside Israel, you live better than you would in Egypt, without any smuggling," he says. "They don't let you just sit on the street ... And Israel would never arrest your wife and father if you are the one wanted by the state...