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TO CURE OR NOT?: Is autism a disease that needs treating or simply a variation in the human condition, like left-handedness?

The New York Times quoted Jane Meyerding, program coordinator for the UW’s International Studies Center, in a Dec.

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ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Pilot project funding available
The Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health (CEEH) is offering pilot project funding in broadly-defined areas of “gene-environment interactions.

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REINDEER RANT: A news release about anthropology Professor Donald Grayson’s research on the environmental threat posed to reindeer by continued global warming brought out the worst punning instincts in some headline writers.

January 3, 2005

Elementary school intervention boosts positive functioning in early adulthood

An elementary school intervention program that taught children impulse control and gave their teachers and parents better management skills has long-lasting effects extending into early adulthood, showing that the children are more productive and well-adjusted members of society at age 21, according to a new study.

December 16, 2004

Winds, ice motion root cause of decline in sea ice, not warmer temperatures

Extreme changes in the Arctic Oscillation in the early 1990s – and not warmer temperatures of recent years – are largely responsible for declines in how much sea ice covers the Arctic Ocean, with near record lows having been observed during the last three years, University of Washington researchers say.