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Clearly there's a hunger for insight, however painful, on the end-time fears particular to our time. The cold war stories could pin the disaster on a simple East-West showdown. The new apocalypses are more shadowy, less ideological. In Jericho, we do not know who attacked or why. In The Road, the cataclysm may have been war, or it may have been an asteroid strike. Who would do this? you might ask these works. Terrorists? A superpower? Americans? God? Their unspoken shrug: Any. All. None. Pick a number...
...broader definition of the disorder, better detection, mandatory reporting by schools and greater awareness of autism among doctors, parents and educators. Still, there's a nagging sense among many experts that some mysterious X-factor or factors in the environment tip genetically susceptible kids into autism, though efforts to pin it on childhood vaccines, mercury or other toxins haven't panned out. Genes alone can't explain it; the identical twin of a child with autism has only a 70% to 90% chance of being similarly afflicted...
...What it costs to buy a stolen credit-card number--with PIN--on the online black market...
...lynch-pin of the corps’ on-campus recruitment is the “campus campaign manager,” a student the company hires to spread the TFA gospel. At Harvard, managers like Jobson seek out leaders from the Phillips Brooks House Association and publications like Let’s Go. They poster, e-mail, call, set up information sessions, and form groups on Facebook...
...Next I looked for vacations. Selecting every shot from a given trip, I chose ?Place on Map...? then typed in my trip location. It labeled the pictures, and placed a virtual pushpin on a world map. I can click various pins to get slideshows of my trips. That?s really all the feature does at present - you can?t click on a pin to print or e-mail all of those shots - but it?s fun and hopefully the beginning of something better...