Nov 21, 2009 -
Autism is a disorder of neural development that is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism involves many parts of the brain; how this occurs is not well understood.
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Oct 18, 2009 -
There are ways of treating panic attacks, anxiety disorder, and other nervous personality problems. Usually, Psychiatrists (not psychologists) will prescribe medicine. This, to me, treats the symptoms and not the underlying cause of your attacks.
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Oct 15, 2009 -
Hi, I just joined after browsing for a bit... it looks like there are wonderful and very intelligent people here. :)
First of all, I'm only 20 and I guess this is the first real love I've ever had...
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Oct 05, 2009 -
Considering this is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I though this would be a good post.
There's no part of our bodies that we obsess about more than our breasts. Even those of us not prone to health anxiety wonder which, if any, of our everyday habits are upping our odds of getting breast cancer.
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Sep 26, 2009 -
Republicans Struggle to Get Off the Mat
By G. Tracy Mehan, III
In Alice McDermott's touching, depressing novel, Charming Billy, a 1998 National Book Award winner, the Irish-American narrator, makes a parenthetical comment on her father's "legion of cousins" in New York, regarding whom "it had seemed to me that there were more alcoholics among them than there were Republicans, or even redheads."
I laughed out loud when I first read that passage since my family was one of the few Republican households in St.
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Aug 11, 2009 -
By TARA PARKER-POPE
Published: July 27, 2009
Hermione is tipsy. Neville is serving drinks. Ron is sipping mead and Harry is partying with his professors.
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Aug 29, 2009 -
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
Saturday, August 29, 2009
The death this week of longtime Democratic Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy means one of two things for the troubled health care reform plan proposed by President Obama: Either the plan has lost one of its most powerful advocates or now its supporters have an emotional rallying point to successfully push for passage. Only time will tell.
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Aug 28, 2009 -
The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare
Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit.
By JOHN MACKEY
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
—Margaret Thatcher
With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people's money.
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Jul 20, 2009 -
FrankTeacherNEW YORK (July 20) – Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning "epic of woe" about his impoverished Irish childhood, died Sunday of cancer.
McCourt, who was 78, had been gravely ill with meningitis and recently was treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. He died at a Manhattan hospice, his brother Malachy McCourt said.Until his mid-60s, Frank McCourt was known primarily around New York as a creative writing teacher and as a local character — the kind who might turn up in a New York novel — singing songs and telling stories with his younger brother Malachy and otherwise joining the crowds at the White Horse Tavern and other literary hangouts.
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Jul 08, 2009 -
1. Protect with PLE – If you are concerned about the effects of sun damage on the skin, consider taking an oral supplement that offers photo-protection, such as polypodium leucotomas extract, or PLE. Recent clinical research has found that this extract from a South American fern has powerful antioxidant and photoprotective properties.
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