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When the brain does not receive the right information--or shuts it out--the result can be devastating. Some children who display early signs of autism, for example, retreat from the world because they are hypersensitive to sensory stimulation, others because their senses are underactive and provide them with too little information. To be effective, then, says George Washington University's Greenspan, treatment must target the underlying condition, protecting some children from disorienting noises and lights, providing others with attention-grabbing stimulation. But when parents and therapists collaborate in an intensive effort to reach these abnormal brains, writes Greenspan...
...million veteran members--made AOL nearly inaccessible at times. One result: last week a subscribers group nailed the service with a $20 million consumer-fraud lawsuit. Just two days after issuing a statement downplaying the suit, AOL--famous for blitzkrieg marketing tactics--reconsidered and announced a full retreat: the company will throttle back efforts to sign up new subscribers and invest $350 million to upgrade its networks. That may not be a fast enough fix, so AOL is also trying another tack: asking loyal surfers to use the service less...
Asked about his regrets, Gates talks about not getting a Microsoft E-mail application to the market quickly enough. "We were too busy, and at a retreat where I wrote our next priorities on a board, everyone said I had to take one off, so we took off E-mail...
...oval table. One of the executives rises and smiles warmly at the kids. "We heard about the personnel problems down at Pure Joy, and do we have a big surprise for you--Cruella will be going on a week-long mandatory executive sensitivity-training program at our corporate retreat in Belize...
Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) knows that. He is a hot agent for Sports Management International--quick, glib and not given to deep thoughts. Still, one night at a corporate retreat, he drafts a manifesto--"The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business"--distributes it to his colleagues, receives a round of hypocritical applause and then gets fired. Thus is Jerry Maguire the film set in motion. Maguire leaves S.M.I. with one client, an undervalued wide receiver named Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), and an accountant named Dorothy Boyd (the gently winsome Renee Zellweger...