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...outside the sessions the same children become chatty and animated, displaying an astonishing grasp of the most arcane subjects. Transformer toys, video games, airplane schedules, star charts, dinosaurs. It sounds charming, and indeed would be, except that their interest is all consuming. After about five minutes, children with Asperger's, a.k.a. the "little professor" or "geek" syndrome, tend to sound like CDs on autoplay. "Did you ask her if she's interested in astrophysics?" a mother gently chides her son, who has launched into an excruciatingly detailed description of what goes on when a star explodes into a supernova...
...Most important, Bush, unlike his father, has no big, bold provocation around which to build a coalition. Except for offering $25,000 bounties to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, Saddam has been trying to stay out of trouble. Everyone knows he's a bad guy and a long-term danger, but as Republican Senator Chuck Hagel wonders, "How urgent is the threat?" And, one might add, how does it compare with the others the U.S. is facing? To many observers, it's a stretch to link any attack on Iraq to the broader war on terrorism. By fostering more...
...reserved for any special daytime emergencies, but rather for use in the event that a student hidden in a fifth-floor reading room does not make it out before Lamont shuts down at 12:45 a.m. “When we close the library, all of the doors except that one lock from the inside also,” explains Joe Rindfleisch, access services assistant and evening supervisor at Lamont. “It’s just a safety precaution; let’s say somebody’s stuck in the library after it closes—they...
...which is a little smaller than the average Harvard single bedroom. Guest rooms, which are similar to the monks’ living quarters, are available to any layperson who desires to spend up to a week living a life of quiet reflection. The walls of each room are bare except for a cross and an icon. There is a reading desk, chair, neatly made twin bed and plain wooden dresser in each room. Almquist explains that the guests live here in complete silence. They take their meals with the monks in the refectory, eating their mostly vegetarian meals three times...
...double order of pancakes), he seems almost coy about hyping his just-released action blockbuster The Scorpion King, in which he plays Mathayus, reprising the role he briefly assumed in The Mummy Returns. He spends the entire film in brown leather battle gear, impaling and slashing his enemies, except when he stops to have sex with a sorceress, after which, natch, her psychic powers are diminished...