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April is Autism Awareness Month, which makes Tricia Regan’s film Autism: The Musical even more of a must-see documentary. Her film follows five autistic children on their journey to create and perform a live musical, but she says it’s not a film about the condition itself. It’s a film about love.
When I started making Autism: The Musical, it was fall of 2005, right after Katrina hit New

The “feckless infatuation” of magazine publishers to creating closed-garden Apps to replicate their publications has proven to be a disappointment, says Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief of MIT’s Technology Review in this 10-minute video.
He says that the medium of the Internet is fundamentally “linky” and that for tablets to succeed, they need to be built on open standards, namely HTML5.
In this keynote address to the Beet.TV Executive Retreat, he discusses the evolution of digital medium and the challenges presented to advertisers and publishers.
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If you write a book about the future of food, you will frequently get The Question.
“So… what are the foods of the future?”
I’d been evading that one for a couple of years with various deflections (“Well, the book is really about…) and mealy-mouthed excuses (“Still researching”).
The reason I’d been punting on the “Thou Will Eat” answers is because of what I’d learned about food prognostication – the Italian who portended the end of pasta, the two 40s-era idealists who predicted that plankton was the future of

An open letter to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Disruptive diplomacy may be the only way out of the Iran-Israel nuclear crisis: the only way to pierce the hegemony of hypocrisy dominating the power politics of nuclear weapons control, of those who have them, and of those who are accused of developing them.
Otherwise, this weekend’s meeting on Iran’s nuclear program is likely to be yet another missed opportunity, yet another exercise in futility.
Who will meet in Istanbul this Saturday? Iran and the P5+1.
Who? The P5+1: The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and the only “legitimate” nuclear weapons states under the UN’s Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) — the U.S., China, Russia, France and the UK and Germany.
Together, their collective history with Iran and Israel is one of complexity, pain and — so far as nuclear weapons are concerned — utter hypocrisy! There is no easy solution. What is needed is disruptive diplomacy — acts of naivety, perhaps — in which both sides put forward something challenging, and in which everyone gives something up to win peace. Only four countries sit outside the

The tremendous event of a human birth begins an epic story of both chaos and harmony, a profoundly familiar rhythm of life that we know and revisit on both physiological and emotional levels as long as we live. As soothing and essential as harmony is life demands disruption as well. Harmony is disrupted, and life-forms deepen in intelligence, evolve.
The word harmony evokes equilibrium and peace. When we idealize harmony we imagine the smooth melding of

A recent government report reveals that the Obama administration deported more than 46,000 undocumented persons with U.S born children within the first six months of last year alone.
Undocumented immigrants do not live in isolation; we are integral members of of our communities. We are people’s brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, loved ones, friends, neighbors and co-workers. These deportations affect and shatter entire communities who will not forget the hard working immigrants who were forced out of their lives and their

Last week, in his first days at his new job as manager of the Miami Marlins, Venezuelan-born Ozzie Guillen said to Time magazine, “I love Fidel Castro,” adding “You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that mother—— is still there.”
The Marlins’ brand new $634 million ballpark is in the city’s Little Havana, and not surprisingly, Guillen’s words ignited a powder keg of emotion and anger from Cuban-Americans. Since then, Guillen apologized and received his punishment — suspension from five games.
And to many, that’s that. After all, some say, Guillen, legendary for inserting his foot in his mouth, was simply mouthing off. ESPN’s Michael Baumann put it this way: “I can’t believe anyone cares what Ozzie Guillen thinks about a foreign

The federal DREAM Act has not been debated in Congress for years. This proposed law, which would permit many undocumented students and soldiers to apply for legal status under certain conditions, does not exist yet. On a state level, it was recently approved in New York, but not funded.
During the recent GOP presidential debates, candidates tried to outdo each other to see who could be more anti-immigrant.
Then, deportations under President Obama hit new and historic

Celebrating Passover, as we’ve just been doing, I’ve been reminded of a very odd feature of the biblical story.
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, “What happened?” but rather, “How then shall I live?” And it’s only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
According to Jewish tradition, the first command the Jewish people ever received was the line in Exodus 12: “This month is to be for you the first month.” We interpret this as the command to establish a calendar, with its Sabbaths and holy days and special

Dear Mexican: Why do Hispanics deny that George Zimmerman is Hispanic? He did nothing wrong and has been crucified in the media–La Raza cannot bow down to the race baiters and race traitors that call themselves African-American leaders!
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Dear Wab: This column is Ask a Mexican!, not Ask a Hispanic!, but I’ll play, only because negrito-hating pendejos like you need to get smacked down. No Latinos deny that Zimmerman is half-Peruvian, and the reason we’re joining African-American leaders in vilifying him is because Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, a story of racial profiling gone horribly wrong that our respective communities know far too well. Wish there was a joke here–oh, wait, it’s your tortured logic. Gracias!
We have much in

SOUTH CAROLINA — More than a decade has passed since 9/11, but the stain put on the American perception of Islam by that tragic event has not faded. The crime of a few fanatic Islamists still shape the image of the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims. Quite a few Americans, in other words, suspect that all Muslims hate America.
However, a closer examination at the Muslim community in the United States reveals a different

1. Remember Who You Are
Deep within all beings is a kind of spark that lights and warms our lives. It’s been called by many names in many different traditions. In the Buddhist tradition it’s known as “Buddha nature”– which is often described in terms of three qualities: boundless wisdom, infinite capability, and immeasurable loving-kindness and compassion.
One of the core teachings of Buddhism is that we all possess this

For 24 years of my life, I was a church planter and pastor. At the beginning of those years, I would have gladly called myself an Evangelical. But those years coincided with the rise of the Religious Right, and at the end, Evangelical meant something very different than before.
I couldn’t use the word without a lot of explanatory and qualifying adjectives. In my book “A Generous Orthodoxy,” I called myself (among other things) “a small-e evangelical,” but sometimes, it was just simpler to say “post-evangelical” or to avoid the whole “e-word” altogether.
Whatever I am, every election cycle, I feel, as I think many [E]vangelicals feel, that major media — whether it was Fox News, MSNBC, CNN or whoever — just don’t get people like

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
– Lewis Carroll
Everybody’ s got Alice fever in Alice town — Llandudno, Wales — but no one is as curious or as excited as me!
That’s because on Friday, May 4, this famous seaside Welsh resort is launching a fantastical Wonderland event. It will celebrate what would have been the 160th birthday of my distant relative, Alice Liddell, the Alice behind what is arguably the greatest children’s book of all time — Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Liddell family, who were close friends of the book’s author, Lewis Carroll, owned a holiday home in this charming town recently voted the happiest place to live in Wales. Their home, formerly called Penmorfa, sat on the top of a high cliff at the West

Fact Number One: Exclusive breastfeeding for at least six months is best for infants and new mothers.
Fact Number Two: Hospital giveaways of infant formula samples to new mothers reduce the amount and length of breastfeeding.
Given these two facts, why would hospitals serve as marketing agents for infant formula companies by giving away free samples of infant formula? Why do the formula companies — Nestle, Abbott and Mead Johnson — think they can get away with practices that undermine public health?
The first of these two questions is more mystifying. There is unanimity among health professionals on the key importance of breastfeeding. Many hospitals that encourage breastfeeding by new mothers simultaneously subvert their own health messaging by giving away formula samples, as well as discount coupons and other formula advertising.
If hospitals started out with the simple proposition that they shouldn’t be marketing commercial products, the infant formula giveaway problem wouldn’t exist. In the absence of a commercial-free hospital culture, hospitals take on a duty to be very self-conscious about the ways that they market or tout commercial

When Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey charged George Zimmerman with second-degree murder this week in the February shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, the charge won praise from Martin’s supporters and more skeptical reactions from some legal commentators.
The power prosecutors have to charge people with crimes is often overlooked in high-profile cases. While probable cause is the minimum standard police officers need to make an arrest and the minimum standard to convict is beyond a reasonable doubt, the question is where the power to charge should be between those two extremes.
In the 22 states that require a grand jury indictment before charging, the grand jury standard is a preponderance of the evidence, although grand juries are sometimes notorious for rubber-stamping a prosecutor’s wishes.
But without a grand jury, a prosecutor’s charging power is entirely discretionary.
Once charged, a suspect often needs to hire expensive legal representation or, if he can’t afford it (and there aren’t many people who can pay for representation on a murder charge), request a public

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President Obama has been pushing policies to boost American manufacturing. Democrats in Congress are pushing a package of bills under the label “Make It In America.” The Obama administration’s Gene Sperling gave a big speech recently describing the vital importance of a healthy manufacturing sector to our economy. But others say promoting manufacturing is “the wrong target” and reviving manufacturing won’t help revive our economy. So what’s the story?
Gene Sperling, Director of the Obama administration’s National Economic Council gave a big speech at the recent Conference on the Renaissance of American

First, a happy Friday the Thirteenth to everyone.
The biggest political news this week was that Rick Santorum quit his increasingly-desperate attempt to win the Republican presidential nomination, and will soon (through clenched teeth, no doubt) be endorsing Mitt Romney as his party’s standard-bearer, in the hopes of becoming the “Next Guy In Line” in 2016. Republicans almost always nominate the NGIL, so it’s understandable that Rick quit before he faced the embarrassment of Pennsylvania voters rejecting him once again. Go out on a high note, instead of in disgrace — a good tactic in politics.
Republican Allen West appears to be channeling the spirit of Joe McCarthy, stating that over 75 Democrats in the House are card-carrying “members of the Communist Party.” Boy, that really takes you back, doesn’t it? Nothing like some good, old-fashioned Red-baiting to get the juices flowing on the Right, eh? The problem is, these days, we’re buddies with Red China (our economy would collapse without them, so who really did win the Cold War, one wonders…), we trade with the folks who beat us in Vietnam, and (other than Cuba) we have no problem with cozying up to Godless Commies around the globe. It’s not exactly

“See, I’m on this new diet. Well, I don’t eat anything. And right before I feel I’m going to faint, I eat a cube of cheese. I’m one stomach flu away from my goal weight.”
Ah yes, that laughable line from “The Devil Wears Prada.” The first time I saw the movie (and I will admit, I’ve seen it approximately seven million times since then), I

It’s a wonderful feeling to see my children bring joy and laughter to thousands of people every night. Granted, they’re an unconventional group born of an unconventional mother. My kids are a bunch of pirates, mermaids, cartoons, and space aliens. There’s even a dancing iguana in the

President Obama has been pushing policies to boost American manufacturing. Democrats in Congress are pushing a package of bills under the label “Make It In America.” The Obama administration’s Gene Sperling gave a big speech recently describing the vital importance of a healthy manufacturing sector to our economy. But others say promoting manufacturing is “the wrong target” and reviving manufacturing won’t help revive our economy. So what’s the story?
Gene Sperling, Director of the Obama administration’s National Economic Council gave a big speech at the recent Conference on the Renaissance of American

Experts in rhino conservation met last week in Nairobi, convened by the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), in response to a rhino poaching epidemic gripping South Africa and Zimbabwe, which reached a record high in 2011 — poaching in South Africa alone leapt up 33 percent in just a year, with an estimated 448 rhinos killed for their horns compared to 13 killed in 2007. While the white rhino is an overall success story coming back from around 100 at the turn of the century to around 20,000 today, if current trends persist rhinos may be extinct in the wild by 2025.
Today, most rhino populations exist only in fenced sanctuaries, conservancies and intensive protected areas where concentrated law enforcement attempts to guard these species from the snares, bullets and tranquilizers of poachers. Even in Kruger National Park, which is one of South Africa’s most protected parks and home to the largest Black and White rhino populations, poaching rates have reached a record high. In 2011, over half of South Africa’s rhino poachings occurred within park boundaries despite increased anti-poaching efforts.
The recent surge in poaching has been linked to the growing use of rhino horn among the wealthy and business class in Vietnam and China, where it is a gifted luxury item or used to treat a range of ailments, including a

There have been many advances in science in the past few decades, but the most influential is without a doubt the discovery of the atom and the atomic level. What this means is that we have discovered not only what makes certain substances more explosive, or strong, or light, etc., but we have also learned what about them makes them more of a certain trait. We have learned about the actual science behind atoms and how they act with each other.
People have always observed things to be different from each other, such as metals in terms of strength and