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...Seven-year-old Adam, whose autistic brother Jacob is 11, says, "I can't really play games with Jacob like I can with my cousin Eric [also 11]. Jacob likes to play games on the computer - but by himself, not with me. He gets too angry if he loses and then doesn't want to play." Adam's father, Paul, says soberly, "I'm sure Eric represents the brother Adam might have had." (Read "A Link Between Autism and Testosterone...
...also Spain’s 2007 Academy Awards nominee for Best Foreign Film. It commanded the biggest opening of the year in Spain as well as the second highest box office debut ever for a Spanish movie in the country. The film beings with Laura (Belén Rueda) returning to the eerie orphanage where she used to live in as a child along with her husband and son. As mysteries surface around the building and her seven-year-old son grows increasingly obsessed with his invisible friends, Laura begins to worry about the state of her only child...
...witnessed students as they knock over soda bottles, look around to see if anyone else noticed, and then fail to clean up after themselves. Or we reach under a desk only to find a sticky wad of gum greeting unsuspecting fingertips. Such behavior reeks of seven-year-old self-centeredness. Supposedly, Harvard students are above that. But this speaks to a more general problem: Too often, students view one another as obstacles or means to an end. It’s the same kind of mentality on display in the New York subway as travelers scramble and shove past...
...program in social justice leadership using a $20 million gift from the estate of television mogul and philanthropist Alan L. Gleitsman, the school plans to announce today. The gift is the largest single gift in the history of the Center and establishes an endowment for the seven-year-old institution. The program, to be named the “Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change,” will finance student fellowships, visiting scholars, and curriculum development in social activism. Gleitsman, who made his fortune by collecting films for resale to television, sold his distribution company...
...realize this. They train their bodies so wonderfully to be able to express emotions, to be able to use the movement in time and in a space to cause a reaction, to communicate,” he said.D’Amboise traced his own transformation from a seven-year-old junior lookout for petty street crime in his childhood neighborhood of Washington Heights into a company member of New York City Ballet by age 15 and principal dancer there for over three decades. He has enjoyed a second career directing the National Dance Institute (NDI), a non-profit arts...