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...help her daughter Sophie, now 11, overcome a paralyzing mutism. Today Shipon-Blum runs an SM clinic with a two-year waiting list and travels the U.S. speaking in hotel ballrooms packed with concerned parents, teachers and clinicians. She also founded the nonprofit Selective Mutism Group--Childhood Anxiety Network, which has become the major national advocacy group for SM. The group's website, selectivemutism.org gets 450,000 hits a month, and its call center hears from several hundred people a week seeking treatment or information...
...good girl, there were no cameras on," she says. "The minute I started arguing, there was a camera shooting me from every angle." She was vilified by viewers across the country. But she has since gone on to do Fear Factor and to play host to Style Network's Oscar coverage. "I was on track to become the biggest bore in history," she says. "Being on the show changed my path." Reality TV's Dr. Frankensteins have tremendous power indeed. And sometimes it pays to be the monster...
Since Jobs owns about half of Pixar, worth $3.5 billion, he is set to become Disney's largest individual shareholder, with a 7% stake. He is also in line for a board seat, which could advance all sorts of deals with Apple. Downloads from Disney's ABC network are already available at the iTunes video store. Think ESPN podcasts to iPods via wireless. Or an Apple TV network featuring tech talk with Jobs. Ever coy, Jobs was vague about his plans, but he is expected to push Disney to leverage its vast library across more digital platforms. He could also...
...race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in his home state of Pennsylvania, Swann may have just been handed the game, thanks to an ill-advised comment by his chief opponent's campaign manager. James Seif, a widely respected and seasoned political operative, was on the Pennsylvania Cable Network Wednesday night discussing the campaign of former Lt. Gov. Bill Scranton when he derided Swann as ?the rich white guy in this race.? Even though Seif seemed to be trying to paint Swann as a well-connected insider in contrast with Scranton-despite the fact that Scranton (as in the city) comes...
...such magnifications. They?ve seen hundreds, but one that happened last July was followed a short while later by a smaller flicker- evidence that the magnifying star had a planet trailing behind (the planet?s flicker was actually detected by another group of astronomers, in the Probing Lensing Anomalies Network, or PLANET collaboration, who had been alerted by the OGLE folks...