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...that it was a child's response to "refrigerator mothers" who didn't show adequate affection. An adviser to the makers of Rain Man--his son was a model for Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning 1988 turn as an autistic savant--Rimland also controversially claimed metals like mercury could trigger autism and vitamins could help treat...
When the bin is full, sensors trigger gears that then compact 180 gal. of waste into 40-lb., easy-to-collect bags. An LED display indicates when the trash is ready to be picked up. Poss has plans for that system to be replaced by a wireless one that will signal when the can is full...
...bullets and tasers.Their introduction has been welcomed by many who see them as a safer way to diffuse potentially dangerous situations, particularly those that involve people on drugs and the mentally ill. But advocates of NLWs tend to ignore one resulting danger: their users are likely to become more trigger-happy...
...with his mother and a cat. Now 57, they came to prominence as 13-year-old child stars in the 1962 Polish film The Two Who Stole the Moon, in which they played mischievous but endearing blond brothers. Later, in the 1980s, they joined the Solidarity movement that would trigger the overthrow of communism across Eastern Europe. They orchestrated the 1990 victory in Poland's first post-communist elections of Solidarity's most famous son, Lech Walesa, but fell out with him shortly afterward and left politics for a time...
...abandoned Gemayel. Syria forced Gemayel to abrogate his deal with Israel, and Hizballah, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group founded by Iran, began a guerrilla war that eventually forced out the Israelis in 2000. That triumph that made Hizballah the most powerful faction in Lebanese politics, enabling it to trigger this summer's war with a cross-border raid into Israel and more recently threaten to topple Siniora's government...