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...reason to drop: This wasn’t your fault, poor Reader. The syllabus originally only listed two 4-6 page papers under coursework. But now (gasp!) Professor Jeyifo takes attendance, requires weekly web postings, and gives biweekly quizzes. It’s time to "Do the Right Thing" and drop this course. More ideas after the jump...
...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...
...Prime Minister Brian Cowen said he was delighted by the "decisive" vote. "Today we have done the right thing for our own future and the future of our children," he said. Cowen's relief was echoed across the whole of the E.U., where leaders had been watching the result as closely as the Irish. (The Union operates by consensus, meaning major policy questions have to be approved by all 27 member states.) "I am really glad with the result," said European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. "The Irish people have spoken. They have said a resounding yes to Europe...
...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...