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...McCarthy's son Evan, then 2, began having seizures so severe he required repeated emergency hospitalization. McCarthy had noticed that Evan had some developmental delays, compared with his peers in a playgroup they attended, and he exhibited some atypical behaviors: arm flapping, repetitive actions and fixation on strange objects. She describes her panic at Evan's diagnosis in her memoir Louder than Words: "I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that...
Conor took these pointers to heart, and his game began to show it. In high school, he played two seasons for the Salmon Arm SilverBacks of the British Columbia Hockey League, where he tied for the league-lead in points per game, finishing with 84 points and 39 goals...
...This time, however, Palin's outrage prompted not an apology but a smackdown, from Andrea Fay Friedman, a Family Guy voice actress - who actually has Down. "My parents raised me to have a sense of humor," she said. "My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes." Ouch. Cartoon 1, Politician...
...Absolutely," says Tony Dovolani, one of the professional ballroom dancers on Dancing with the Stars, who has partnered with model and wrestler Stacy Keibler and soap-opera star Susan Lucci. "I see a huge transition in ice dancing coming from [the influence of] ballroom dancing. Even the outfits, the arm styling, the way they carry themselves are more ballroom-like." (See the latest pictures from the 2010 Winter Games...
...often does rapid transformation work? In 2008, the Institute of Education Sciences, the Education Department's research arm, published a guide to turning around low-performing schools that noted that "the research base on effective strategies ... is sparse." In other words, taxpayers are betting billions of dollars on what essentially remains a crapshoot...