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Experts not involved in the study caution that parent surveys are not the gold standard for measuring the prevalence of a medical condition. "The fact that 40% of the parents reporting that their child had received an ASD diagnosis now say the child no longer met criteria does suggest that there may be over-reporting in this survey," says Craig Newschaffer, a leading autism epidemiologist at Drexel University School of Public Health. "Nonetheless, the survey reinforces what we have come to understand over the past decade - that autism is much more common than previously thought." (See six tips for traveling...
...from the start, Moore showed that a political doc could be entertaining. Each of his films is at least as interested in evoking emotion as in marshaling data; Moore uses cartoons and farcical collisions of images to sell his sagas. To the standard regimen of interviews, film clips and pie charts, he had the showman's savvy to add an extra ingredient: himself. Voilą! The docucomedy, with a front man as prominent as the subjects he investigates...
...fetching what a human points at is standard dog behavior: master and dog. The cat, however, takes the lead in the cognition contest because she points her paw at what she wants, and the human fetches it for her: cat and slave...
...these admissions were made only a day after the suspect had been given his rights - not nearly three years later. The court will be asked to decide whether to treat their decision in Edwards as a so-called "bright-line" rule - that is, one that would create an absolute standard of police conduct in regard to the Miranda rights, regardless of how much time has passed...
...with progressive governors, attitudes have changed in Washington. But Congress continues to dither over cap and trade, and California is moving ahead. On Sept. 15, Schwarzenegger signed an executive order requiring that the state get 33% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 - well above the 15% national standard that current climate bills circulating in Congress would require. California is not alone: more than half the states in the U.S. have similar renewable energy standards, and states in the West and the Northeast have begun to form regional carbon cap-and-trade programs. "This is an incredible opportunity...