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Experts not involved in the study caution that parent surveys are not the gold standard for measuring the prevalence of a medical condition. "The fact that 40% of the parents reporting that their child had received an ASD diagnosis now say the child no longer met criteria does suggest that there may be over-reporting in this survey," says Craig Newschaffer, a leading autism epidemiologist at Drexel University School of Public Health. "Nonetheless, the survey reinforces what we have come to understand over the past decade - that autism is much more common than previously thought." (See six tips for traveling...
...Both camps have amassed vocal - and occasionally violent - supporters among a general populace that is ever more politically disillusioned. Results of a recently released nationwide poll by the nonprofit Asia Foundation found that less than one-third of Thais feel the country is moving in the right direction. In fact, the U.S. is so worried about the state of the nation that it recently committed funds through its Agency for International Development for democracy-building in Thailand, something it has not done for nearly 15 years...
...financial terms the trade would leave neither country better off. But it would allow China, which is fast coming to terms with the fact that it has to do something about its pollution and emission levels, to truthfully tell its domestic audience that it is cutting them but that the U.S. is compensating it to do so. It would allow the U.S. to argue, also truthfully, that the cost of paying China to cut its emissions is minimal. This solution allows both sides to get what they want while ensuring cuts. (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
Right now the interest rate on a 10-year Treasury bond is about 3.5%. That could go lower - in fact, it did go lower at the height of the panic last fall, to just above 2%. But the likeliest future path for Treasury yields, Atteberry figures - on the basis of history and the fact that rates have been kept low this year by Federal Reserve purchases, investor demand and other factors - is up. If you own a 10-year Treasury bond yielding 3.5%, interest rates rising to 4% or 5% or higher mean your bond (with its rate stuck...
...fast-food rut. For even the most well-intentioned working parents, having the will to eat right doesn't necessarily mean being able to find a way to do so. Everyday life--in the form of work, school and other activities--always seems to get in the way. In fact, recent studies show that one of the most important factors that determine how healthily, or unhealthily, Americans eat is workplace demands. And when parents start taking nutritional shortcuts for the sake of their schedules, their children are more likely to do the same...