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...Enter Michael Waldman, of Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. He got to thinking that TV watching - already vaguely associated with ADHD - just might be factor X. That there was no medical research to support the idea didn't faze him. "I decided the only way it will get done is if I do it," he says. Waldman and fellow economists Sean Nicholson of Cornell and Nodir Adilov of Indiana University-Purdue were also undeterred by the fact that there are no reliable large-scale data on the viewing habits of kids ages 1 to 3 - the period when...
...behold, Waldman and colleagues found that reported autism cases within certain counties in California and Pennsylvania rose at rates that closely tracked cable subscriptions, rising fastest in counties with fastest-growing cable. The same was true of autism and rainfall patterns in California, Pennsylvania and Washington State. Their oddly definitive conclusions: "Approximately 17% of the growth in autism in California and Pennsylvania during the 1970s and 1980s was due to the growth of cable television," and "just under 40% of autism diagnoses in the three states studied is the result of television watching due to precipitation...
...also about money!) has given me more of an idea than I’ve had since deciding, at the age of nine, that I would become the Yankees’ first-ever female sportscaster. (Alas—another dream gone. I wonder what kind of shoes Suzyn Waldman wears to the radio booth...
...There were more BLOHARDS inside Fenway. Suzyn Waldman, down on the field singing the national anthem, was introduced to the crowd as being from New York (boos) and Boston (cheers). Yes, sports fans, that Suzyn Waldman-the one who has been, in recent years, in the employ of George Steinbrenner and his YES Network, the one who this season stepped in for Charlie Steiner in the radio booth when Charlie headed for Los Angeles to be Vin Scully?s sidekick. Here?s something to suck on, Yankee fans: In the 1980s and ?90s Waldman was a BLOHARD, her dues were...
...have to consider whether the one-time impact of washing your hands of a horrible economic situation or horrible regime is outweighed by the potential advantages and positive impact you can have by being a positive player,” Waldman says...