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Stephen Stills aims to Light Up the Blues for Autism Speaks
On his own and as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young), two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Stephen Stills has taken part in many a benefit concert over the last four decades, but usually his role has been that of rock singer...
Tags: Don Felder, Entertainment, Music Industry, Charter Schools, Lucinda Williams
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Arsenal of weapons found in Newtown gunman's home
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - An arsenal of weapons including guns, a gun safe with shotgun shells, a bayonet and several swords were found in the home of the gunman who carried out the Newtown school shooting, according to search warrants released Thursday. ...
Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Gun Control, Gaming, Politics, Firearms
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Newtown massacre: Warrants detail Adam Lanza's world of weapons
Adam Lanza, the gunman who attacked a Connecticut elementary school, killing 20 children and six adults, had an arsenal of guns, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition and even samurai swords, knives and a bayonet, according to search warrants released on...
Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Gun Control, Gaming, Politics, Health and Safety at School
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Theater review: 'On the Spectrum' a love story with a difference
Cormac is a law-school-bound young man living in a cramped apartment in New York's West Village with his financially strapped mother. Iris is a blogger, working from home in Queens, who hires "Mac" to spiff up her website. The love story that develops...
Tags: Autism, Arts and Culture, West Village, Behavioral Conditions
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Adam and Nancy Lanza: An investigation into their family life
Years before Adam Lanza shot up Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, his mother, Nancy, had enrolled him there in the hopes that the boy would pull out of his shell. He never did. A new investigation, co-reported by the Hartford Courant and PBS...
Tags: Gaming, Frontline Limited, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Anders Breivik, Entertainment
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Folic acid linked to reduced risk of autism spectrum disorders
Mothers who took folic acid supplements around the time they became pregnant were less likely to have children with an autism spectrum disorder, a new study has found. Researchers in Norway examined health records of more than 85,000 children born there...
Tags: Dietary Supplements, Learning Disability, Food and Drug Administration, Health Organizations, Fatty Acids
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Life getting back to normal for freed 5-year-old Alabama hostage
The Alabama boy held captive for nearly a week by an angry and volatile kidnapper seemed to be enjoying his newfound freedom Tuesday, according to relatives and the county sheriff in tiny Midland City, Ala. After FBI agents rescued him from a bunker,...
Tags: Laws, Human Interest, Motorvehicle Accidents, Charles Poland, Jr., Leon Panetta
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Upset by divorce? Outsider? Seeking clues in school shooter's past
STAMFORD, Conn. – When the parents of Adam Lanza divorced, the settlement left Nancy Lanza with $24,150 a month in alimony payments and able to live a comfortable life to care for her son. Nancy Lanza, 52, was her son’s first victim on...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Firearms, General Electric Company, Teaching and Learning
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'The Uninvited' by Liz Jensen gets too far ahead of its detective
-------------------- The Uninvited A Novel Liz Jensen Bloomsbury: 325 pp., $25 -------------------- The psychologically flawed detective is everywhere, from television's "Monk" (with OCD) to Jonathan Lethem's award-winning novel "Motherless...
Tags: Fiction, The Walking Dead (tv program), Star Trek (movie, 2009), Monk (tv program)
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Hairstylist remembers Adam Lanza: 'I thought he couldn't speak'
Nancy Lanza's influence on her son was apparent even to the stylists who cut his hair. They said Adam never said a word when his mother brought him in for haircuts every few weeks. Adam Lanza would sit wordlessly in the chair and stare at the floor as...
Tags: Autism, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Behavioral Conditions, Adam Lanza
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Mom who turned in son over 'Twilight' murder plot talks of love
Love means never having to say you’re sorry, according to the popular 1970 film “Love Story.” For Tricia Lammers, love for her son meant contacting police to warn them that the young man was prepared to commit mass murder at a Missouri...
Tags: Shootings, Arts and Culture, Murder, Walmart, Behavioral Conditions
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'Colin Fischer': A teen detective with Asperger's, and heart
-------------------- Colin Fischer A Novel Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz Razorbill: 256 pp, $17.99 -------------------- Every high school student could use a friend like Colin Fischer, the protagonist in a new teen mystery novel called, as...
Tags: Mystery (genre)
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