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...disorder or have contact with a mental health professional as adolescents, or about twice the odds that non-adopted teens face. "Despite the popularity of adoption, there is persistent concern that adopted children may be at a heightened risk for mental health or adjustment problems," the study's authors write in a report released Monday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoptees More Likely to be Troubled | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

...clearly wanted to write about him. Ceccaldi's book does not focus exclusively on Houellebecq, but her assessment of his personal and artistic flaws are the meat of a work apparently conceived and executed as an act of revenge. In one section, for example, Ceccaldi caps off a point by urging her son to go have something extremely intimate done to himself that no mother should ever order her child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist's Mother Fires Back | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

...while “pop science” may be easier to read than research papers, these authors have found that the process of turning complicated scientific theories into digestible bits of popular science requires them to learn to write without jargon but also to avoid oversimplification. As the professors have learned, it is often difficult to strike the right balance between advancing science and popularizing...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pop-Science Paradox | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

Pinker believes that since taxpayers have a right to access the research they fund, scientists who write popular science are performing a valuable public service...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pop-Science Paradox | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

...However, the McCanns' ability to speak - or write - about the investigation is limited while they remain official suspects. Mark Williams-Thomas is a former detective who's now a regular consultant to various media outlets. He says police working the case in Praia da Luz "are in no rush to lift the arguido status." Recently, Portuguese police reportedly suggested that the McCanns return to Portugal to film a reenactment of the fateful night. But Williams-Thomas says the likelihood of that happening "is very slim," mainly because the McCanns distrust the police now. "Relations between the McCanns and the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madeleine McCann, One Year Later | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

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