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...area,” she said. “It was really cool because I sent an e-mail to see if people would help, and word just got around. People I knew who were students and people I didn’t know came with staples and masking tape to help.” Teng has been trying to spread the word by sending e-mails across Harvard student group and house lists. “I’m really grateful for the way that people have gotten the word out,” she said...
...going to narrate another book on tape? I just finished, actually, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. This particular one didn't go as well as the editor hoped, I'm sure, because I was very phlegmy. I had an allergy for three whole days. So the poor editor is going to have to edit out three or four hours of [throat clearing...
...Those with classic autism often talk more like a balky tape recorder. They may be limited to echolalia - repeating words from songs, television and the environment - in meaningless ways, or lapse into making growling incoherent sounds. Chandima Rajapatirana, a 32-year-old autistic man from Potomac, Md., writes about how hard it is for him to coordinate the working parts of his body and brain to produce speech. He and others have expressed the anxiety they feel about trying to speak and failing. Jamie Burke, a 19-year-old high school senior from Syracuse, N.Y., puts it this...
...AUTISTIC BRAIN Whether the cause is maternal antibodies, heavy metals or something else, there is no question that the brains of young children with autism have unusual features. To begin with, they tend to be too big. In studies based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and basic tape-measure readings, neuroscientist Eric Courchesne at Children's Hospital of San Diego showed that while children with autism are born with ordinary-size brains, they experience a rapid expansion by age 2 - particularly in the frontal lobes. By age 4, says Courchesne, autistic children tend to have brains the size...
...from the experience. “I did study physiology, I just didn’t get a degree in it,” she jokes, referencing her “feel the burn” workout phase in the ’80s, when she commanded a workout-tape empire that taught millions of women how to tighten their gluts and wear colorful unitards...