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...Sweeney's collaborator, University of Pittsburgh neurologist Dr. Nancy Minshew, the images Sweeney has produced of autistic minds in action are endlessly evocative. They suggest that essential connections between key areas of the brain either were never made or do not function at an optimal level. "When you look at these images, you can see what's not there," she says, conjuring up an experience eerily akin to looking at side-by-side photographs of Manhattan with and without the Twin Towers...
...screening software, costs about $120,000 a screen, although the price could fall significantly as volume picks up. Even so, that sort of expense makes little sense to the operator of the local sixplex, which usually owns the projection equipment. Nick Mulone, who owns four theaters in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area, praises digital-picture quality but doesn't expect it to draw crowds or justify higher ticket prices. "The average moviegoer is more interested in the movie than in the technology," he says...
Apparently, none of the adults at Mellon Middle School have ever heard of art therapy. Becca Johnson, a sixth grader, certainly has: "That's my way of saying I'm angry," she said Tuesday, after the 11-year-old was suspended from her suburban Pittsburgh school for doodling two hangman-style stick figures with arrows stuck through their heads. The names of a teacher and a substitute were scrawled beneath the drawings, and Becca's school contends the sketches represent "a terrorist threat...
...surviving member of the Warren Supreme Court, who won renown first as a college and pro football player and then as an even-keeled, defiantly independent jurist; of complications from pneumonia; in Denver. Known for his speed--and record rushing yardage and pay--as a defensive back for the Pittsburgh Pirates (now Steelers) and Detroit Lions in the late '30s and early '40s, the Rhodes scholar never shook his nickname, Whizzer, much to his ire. Appointed to the court in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy after serving as Robert Kennedy's deputy Attorney General, White consistently supported civil rights...
Cuban has usually managed to get to the economics ever since his boyhood in Mount Lebanon, Pa., a Pittsburgh suburb, where his father was a car upholsterer. An avid basketball player, Cuban wanted a fancy pair of Puma sneakers, but his dad wouldn't pay. So Cuban, then 12, sold garbage bags door to door to raise the cash. He was a box boy at the local grocer and worked the meat slicer at a deli and at the canteen at a summer camp. To pay his way through Indiana University, he gave disco-dancing lessons, rented the Bloomington National...