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...American Academy of Pediatrics raised a lot of alarms when it issued two new reports about early autism intervention and a recommendation that physicians screen for the disorder twice by age 2--rather than 3 or 4, the ages when autism diagnoses have typically been made. But is autism turning up earlier in childhood? Here's what the announcements really mean...
...various distances and in differing weight classes, they switched to another trainer, who guessed Pocket Money was best suited to the 1,400-m run at Hong Kong's Shatin track. In the three races that Pocket Money has run so far this year, he has finished first twice and second once. Lo is pleased, not least because Pocket Money's $260,000 in winnings is the biggest haul for any Hong Kong horse thus far in the 2007-08 season. With owners entitled to a 70% cut, his successes have more than paid back the various costs...
...international medical journals have published a flurry of review papers and studies on the link between fatal heart disease and stress. In an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers in Quebec reported that first-time heart-attack patients who returned to chronically stressful jobs were twice as likely to have a second attack as patients who found their work to be relatively stress-free. In another study published in October in the Archives of Internal Medicine, University of London researchers said that British civil servants with stormy intimate relationships had a 34% higher risk of heart...
...told Harry Potter readers that their beloved Hogwarts Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, is gay. In honor of the Headmaster’s outing, FM lists fifteen other secrets Harry Potter and co. might be hiding. 1. Hagrid has a fear of heights. 2. Voldemort is Harry’s cousin, twice removed. And you thought your family was screwed up. 3. Neville’s toad is more than just a pet… 4. And Draco Malfoy still sleeps with a teddy bear. 5. McGonagall always had a thing for Dumbledore. Guess that’s never going to work...
...McGill games. The Crimson’s first opponent this weekend is Quinnipiac. Last year Harvard crushed the Bobcats 6-1. But one factor that plays to the Bobcats’ advantage is that this Friday’s game will be their sixth, and Harvard has only played twice as a team. “This is going to be [Quinnipiac’s] sixth game,” Vaillancourt said. “They are going to be more used to playing together than us.” The Crimson also beat Princeton last year...