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Autism is like this: Someone breaks into your house late at night and steals your precious child's mind and personality and leaves the bewildered body behind. We have a national emergency. Families affected by autism need so much, but first they need hope--the hope that medical research can bring. The Cure Autism Now Foundation www.cureautismnow.org has built awareness, pushed the government to take action and started the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange, the nation's only collaborative gene bank for autism. We know that with determination, money and energy you can hurry science. JONATHAN SHESTACK, CO-FOUNDER CURE AUTISM...
...Identity?precious, elusive, fakable?is at the heart of Hari Kunzru's engaging debut novel The Impressionist (Penguin; 481 pages), which explores what it is to be Indian, English and all that lies between. The boy who would will himself into becoming Jonathan Bridgeman was born Pran Nath, spoiled heir to a wealthy Hindu clan in WW I-era British India. He is celebrated for his royal paleness?until he is revealed to be the half-breed bastard of a British officer. Teenage Pran is promptly tossed from his house and launched on a journey to the ragged ends...
...abdication of responsibility for the welfare of its female students. From its silence on final clubs to its continued female faculty under-representation, the College has not proven that it has any interest in or intent to take up Radcliffe’s former charges as equally precious and protectable members of the Harvard community. Instead, the College prefers procedural equality which ignores the substantive challenges women face on this campus—sexual assault being...
James J. McCarthy This precious planet earth will be a better place for all peoples if your generation decides to tread more gently upon it than did your parents and their ancestors. During your lifetime we have learned that one species, Homo sapiens, is now altering Earth’s climate at unprecedented rates...
...real issue here, as Professor West himself made clear to The Crimson, is that ‘the precious Harvard tradition is bigger than Summers, myself or any of us,’” the letter reads...