From the moment parents absorb the shock that their child may be autistic, they enter a dizzying world of specialists, therapists and, alas, purveyors of snake oil. Getting the right help quickly is paramount, but it is hard to make good decisions when you are in a panic or fighting despair
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Born Gay?
What makes people gay? To conservative moralists, homosexuality is a sin, a willful choice of godless evil.
Report: Teen Pregnancy, Abortion Rates Rise in New Trend
Pregnancy rates among U.S. teenagers, which had been dropping since 1990, took an upturn in 2006, according to newly released data
Mobile Threat?
For a device so many people use so frequently in the course of a day, surprisingly little is certain about the health effects of cell-phone use.
Pushback grows against insurance industry report
They’re angry and fighting back with full force. The White House, Democrats and health care experts are blasting a new insurance industry trade report that finds that health insurance premiums for the typical American family would increase by $4,000 by 2019 under a key Senate overhaul plan
Autopsy: Boyzone member, 33, died of natural causes
Singer Stephen Gately, a member of the Irish band Boyzone, died of natural causes, a court spokeswoman on the Spanish island of Majorca said Tuesday. The court spokeswoman, who by custom is not identified, said Gately, 33, died Saturday of acute pulmonary edema, according to preliminary autopsy reports.
‘Humility’ needed in Afghanistan, commander says
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‘My sister! My daughter!’ and other tales of ‘Chinatown’
If you think you were confused and challenged by the famously labyrinthine plot of “Chinatown,” imagine how the screenwriter felt. “I did lose my way many times,” said Robert Towne in a recent interview.
Roman Polanski: A life on celluloid
“I did lose my way many times,” said Robert Towne in a recent interview. “It took an ungodly amount of time to work on it — it was 10 months of solid work, and before that, there were several months of letting it gel enough to write it.” The process was worth it to Towne, however — he walked away with an Oscar for best original screenplay, the only one the film received in a year mostly overrun by “The Godfather Part II.” Director Roman Polanski’s film, starring Jack Nicholson as a 1930s detective who gets in over his head with intertwined scandals of murder, sodomy and real estate development, has become a modern classic
Tiny technologies could produce big energy solutions
Forgot to charge your cell phone last night?