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Such descriptions shed light on seemingly self-destructive behavior like biting, scratching, spinning and head banging. For people like Rajapatirana, banging against a wall can be a useful way to tell, quite literally, where their head is at. "Before we extinguish [such behaviors], we need to understand what they are telling us," writes Judith Bluestone, a Seattle-based therapist who is autistic, in The Fabric of Autism...
...month, the club staged the second annual “Human Iditarod,” a competition inspired by the famous Alaskan dog sled race in which teams of students pulled homemade sleds around the same space that played host to the campout. Although the group was instructed to extinguish the fire, Rennell and his fellow members of the Alaska Klub did not let the run in with HUPD spoil their evening plans. As vice president Rob E. Furrow ’07 ran for a bucket of water, Rennell led the group in a rousing rendition...
...discarded cigarette likely set off a small fire in the C entryway of Quincy House on Friday evening, causing a flurry of activity on Plympton Street as four fire trucks and a resident tutor worked to extinguish the blaze. According to Cambridge Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief John J. Cotter, firefighters responded to a fire alarm in Quincy at approximately 9 p.m. on Friday, after a fire erupted in garbage and leaves that had collected in a downstairs window well. “It was a small fire in a window well, most likely caused by a discarded cigarette...
According to Burdon, Hughson planned to burn down Fort George, in what is now the heart of Manhattan’s downtown financial district. Burton testified that, according to Hughson’s scheme, “when as the white People came to extinguish it, [the conspirators] would kill and destroy them.” Burton named names...
Charles Krauthammer's article "In Search of the Silver Bullet" [ESSAY, Nov. 4] puts science into perspective. No new theory and no technology will extinguish the tendency in man to kill members of his own species. Evil is as permanent as the sun and the stars. When we figure out what causes the sun and the stars, maybe then we can tackle the question of good and evil. Justin L. Panson State College...