Word: thingness
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...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...
WHAT!? Is this going to be a new thing!? We did not need that image of Creed and Meredith. Could there be a more disgusting office hook-up? Gross. Gross. Gross...
...said on film, saying he "embellished" the anecdote about speaking to Rittenband about increasing Polanski's penalty. He told the Associated Press on Sept. 30 that he did so because he thought the HBO film would air only in France and not in the U.S. "It was a dumb thing to do," Wells told the AP. "I'm going to have to live with it." (The State Bar can choose to punish a lawyer found in violation of ex parte rules...
...County. Braun, who worked in Rittenband's court as a young attorney, says the judge routinely held ex parte communications with state prosecutors. "He would talk to people without the other side there, which is completely illegal. Now I didn't do it because I knew someday the proverbial thing was going to hit the fan and that it was unethical." As for Wells' recantation, Braun says, "It does surprise me now that he's said he lied. So I tend to believe his first version." Why would Wells change his story? "I don't know. Other than that...
...similar thing happened last summer after Hizballah, the Lebanese militant group, exchanged the bodies of two dead Israeli soldiers for the release of five militants, including Samir Kuntar, who was in jail for the killing of a 4-year-old girl. The celebration that greeted Kuntar when he returned to Lebanon, which included a televised red carpet reception attended by the full Lebanese cabinet, disgusted Israelis and dredged up memories of the government's failures during the 2006 war with Hizballah. (See pictures of a fragile truce from...