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...late 1960s and early '70s, autism was considered a rarity in the U.S., so uncommon that many pediatricians believed they had never seen a case. Treatment was laughable: the dangerous Freudian inanities of Bruno Bettelheim and his now widely discredited methods, the talk therapy of the psychoanalytic community, whose members wanted to treat the parents rather than the child (the blame-the-parents approach). We moved from New York to Los Angeles in search of a cure for Noah. There, at UCLA, new behavioral programs, the operant-conditioning and discrete-trial therapies that now dominate autism treatment, were being pioneered...
...biggest casualties in the War on Terror has been America’s international reputation. Five years ago, we began to learn of the horrific treatment meted out to the prisoners in what was then known as the Abu Ghraib prison, just outside of Baghdad. While the accounts and descriptions of this abuse were chilling enough, what really pricked Americans’ collective conscience was the release of a series of photographs that documented (in grisly detail) the full extent of the physical and mental pain inflicted on these inmates...
...abuse of detainees and create a system in which future mistakes could be prevented. As such, we are extremely disappointed in the Obama administration’s change of heart and hope that this does not mark a turn away from its heretofore transparent and praiseworthy decisions regarding the treatment of prisoners...
...like South Florida. This month Medicare chose Miami as one of 14 cities to take part in a project to reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions. And because South Florida's population is largely elderly, more local health-care reformers are urging doctors and hospitals to examine costly and often pointless treatment for dying patients. A 2008 Dartmouth study suggested that South Florida hospitals generate especially high bills for such cases...
Hotel Nassauer Hof: The thermal pools of this grand hotel's Beauty Centre look across Wiesbaden's rooftops through its fifth-floor windows. Guests are welcomed with a glass of champagne, perhaps followed by a basalt-stone massage, a water-bed exfoliating treatment or a marine-mud pack. Hotel guests have free access to the designer wellness area but nonresidents need to book a day treatment, which buys entry rights to all the facilities. A full-body massage and facial treatment form part of the day package, with prices starting at just over $230. The spa also works closely with...