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...report that Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the new head of NATO, is a Dane with a tough, no-nonsense style who will sort out NATO in Afghanistan [Sept. 14]. Why, then, does he say, "We would very much like to see further contributions from the European side," when a "tough, no-nonsense style" would say, "France and Germany, your troops are no use behind a hedge 500 miles away from the fighting - get them where the action is." Bob Wydell, OSWESTRY, ENGLAND...
...about as likely to be employed. Only 0.2% of adults who had finished college were on the spectrum, but the rate was 10 times higher among those without a high school degree. And, in contrast with people with depression or anxiety disorders, autistic adults were unlikely be receiving any sort of mental health services...
...taken so long to do a study of this sort? For one thing, you need an enormous sample size - at an enormous cost - to find significant numbers of people with autism. Second, it's more difficult to detect autism in adults than in children. Children often have glaring symptoms, like delays in learning to speak, extreme social withdrawal and terrible tantrums. Less is known about how autism looks in adults. "To diagnose autism, you need to have good information on people's behavior," says Brugha. "It's much more straightforward to get that with children because you've got parents...
...honestly thought that it would not happen at all and that [Martin] was just being friendly,” he says. “It was sort of validating since we spent all this time talking about it, thinking about it, trying to pretend that it was real, and then it did end up being real...
...theme of this year's World Breastfeeding Week in August - "Breastfeeding - a vital emergency response" - has proved eerily prescient in the case of the Philippines. For mothers and young children caught up in the devastation of the sort wrought by Typhoon Ondoy on Sept. 26, breastfeeding advocates say the practice can provide the key to averting a whole new set of disasters. "The availability of water, cooking utensils, and fuel is very unreliable," said Nona Andaya-Castillo, co-organizer of the synchronized breastfeeding event, in Manila, three days after the nation experienced its worst flooding in nearly 50 years...