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Along the way, a number of myths about dyslexia have been exploded. You may have heard, for example, that it's all about flipping letters, writing them backward, Toys "R" Us style. Wrong. Practically all children make mirror copies of letters as they learn to write, although dyslexics do it more. You may believe that more boys than girls are dyslexic. Wrong again. Boys are just more likely to get noticed because they often vent their frustration by acting out. You may think that dyslexia can be outgrown. This is perhaps the most damaging myth, because it leads parents...
...imposed, seven out of seven judges will have to agree. Nevertheless, a senior U.S. official says, "there's a good deal of concern at the State Department" about rising British bad feeling, not least because "Blair's support has been so noteworthy that they'd like to bend over backward to help." But Guantánamo is the military's turf, "and they couldn't give a rip," says one U.S. diplomat - London wasn't even given advance notice of the decision to try Abbasi and Begg in Guantánamo. Luigi Manconi, a former Italian senator who now heads...
...Broadcasters like Wong are in the vanguard of Asia's radio revolution. Much of the region is still too technologically backward or remote to rely on the Internet or on text messaging to gather information, form virtual communities, exchange and spread ideas, or just vent. Instead, it's radio?particularly talk radio?that is proving the channel of choice, not least because all you need is a simple transistor radio and a phone. A new generation of outspoken radio-show hosts are not only airing their own contrarian views but are allowing we, the people, to speak out. Asia...
...Nicosia and Ankara this January, after U.N. talks aimed at reuniting the island failed. "I was going to the President, to the Turkish government, day by day to convince them," he said. Opening the line, he argued, would show ordinary Greeks that Turkish Cyprus was not an economically backward province laboring under military rule. Ankara was receptive, says Serdar, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "was particularly encouraging." Rauf Denktash - who, to the displeasure of many of his own people, has fiercely resisted the U.N. effort to find a solution - agreed to go along as an "experiment." Analysts say Turkey...
...more than one leg up on Lady Luck. Now British advocacy group FairPlay says it has proof. It used an emulator, which "borrows" a gambling machine's programming code and plays it on a computer, to test the honesty of fruit machines. The program let FairPlay run through games backward to see what would happen if gamblers made different choices. The result? "All the common British machines we tested cheat," says spokesman Stuart Campbell. When the machine gives players a number and offers a chance to "gamble" on whether the next number will be higher or lower, it has already...