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...London researchers have been studying the commonalities between these two conditions for several years. On the surface, they appear entirely different - in autism, patients have difficulty connecting with people in the outside world, while in anorexia, sufferers seem consumed by other people's perceptions - but Maudsley researchers point out that the salient characteristics of each illness are similar. (See six tips for traveling with an autistic child...
...Services, said that plans are also being discussed by College and UHS officials to close the Office of Alcohol & Other Drug Services for the month of July, although the UHS Center for Wellness will remain open. He stressed that "nothing is official and nothing has been announced" at this point in time, and also said that services that might otherwise be provided by OSAPR will be addressed by UHS Mental Health Services over the summer, as well as Harvard University Police Department...
...every 3 teens currently has a job, the lowest number since 1948. This statistic helps explain why Sum thinks the program isn't going far enough. Sure, $1.2 billion and hundreds of thousands of jobs sound huge, but it will bring teen unemployment down only a few percentage points - and only for a few months at that. If the point of a summer-jobs program is partly to train the uninitiated in the ways of the working world and partly to simply get them into the employment stream, then one can't be satisfied with just a three-month stint...
...scene. It was the sort of crowd that might gather after a football victory. The Ahmadinejad supporters, dressed in the red, white and green of the Iranian flag, seemed to be enjoying the freedom as much as the more flamboyant Mousavi supporters, who were draped in green. At one point, an Ahmadinejad supporter stuck his head out the window of his car and sang a lullaby, "Mousavi - lai, lai," in response to the students chanting "Ahmadi - bye, bye." The students laughed. It was as if someone had opened a door and an entire country had spilled out. It was possible...
...since Iran was the country that was isolated from the rest of the world. "You're more isolated than we are," he replied, directly reflecting his boss's public arrogance. Ahmadinejad has offered to debate Obama at the U.N. but has been silent about substantive negotiations. When this point was raised by an AP reporter at his postelection press conference, Ahmadinejad was dismissive. "That's a suggestion," he said. "Not a question...