Doctors like to pick up the first indicators of disease as early as possible so they can begin effective treatments that might help patients. But when it comes to conditions like autism, that’s not always easy.
Early Detection
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How Can We Trust Them?
The resort town of Abbottabad is a familiar one to day-tripping Pakistanis seeking escape from the urban tumult of the Punjab plain. Just 75 miles from the capital, Islamabad, colonial-era bungalows abut modern whitewashed villas on small streets largely devoid of traffic.
Going for Broke
When Melissa Rothrock, 33, decided in the spring of 2009 that she wanted to become the first in her family to go to college, she knew a traditional program was out of the question. The mother of four children–one of them just an infant–couldn’t afford a babysitter, and her husband was on the road for days at a time as a truck driver
National Parks: Near the Madding Crowds
Last summer, when nearly 2 million vacationers descended on California’s Yosemite National Park, the line of cars at the South Entrance was often nearly a mile long.
Personalized Magazine Apps: Cutting the Web Down to Size
The Web may be the most amazing newsstand the world has ever known, but it’s far from perfect. For one thing, there’s way too much of it: jillions of pieces of content on gazillions of sites clamor for your attention, from gems to appalling dreck
Love Hurts
The very language of love is painful: you have a crush; you’re swept off your feet; your heart is broken. This turns out not to be poetic license: according to the latest research, the brain doesn’t distinguish much between the extreme emotional pain of social rejection and the physical pain of injury.
How To Fix 911
The phone rang at 4:43 a.m. on March 27, 2007
Where the Jobs Are
North Dakota has the fastest-growing employment market. But Texas is the jobs leader–adding them four times as fast as any other state
The Swipe-Fee Free-for-All
For decades the folks at Visa and MasterCard have been slobbering over the prospect of a cashless society, and they’re getting their wish.
TV Review: Upstairs, Downstairs
In the show’s heyday, a billion people worldwide watched Upstairs, Downstairs, the saga of a family of London aristocrats who shared a house at 165 Eaton Place with a fleet of salt-of-the-earth servants. The series, which aired in a reported 70 countries, won seven Emmy Awards and two BAFTAs and became such a fixture of the cultural landscape that when the Muppets spoofed it on Monsterpiece Theater, Alistair Cookie welcomed viewers to “Episode 793.” He was exaggerating: there were actually 68 episodes over five seasons, the first of which began airing in Britain 40 years ago