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News Briefs-11/5

Before hitting the books for finals, check out these upcoming Year of the Humanities events.  BookTalk The final BookTalk presentations at Books & Books in Coral Gables will feature history professor Michael Miller and Associate Professor of English Brenna Munro. Miller will discuss his recent book, titled “Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History,”...

The disabled public education system

How is it possible that our taxes are not being properly spent to get children with autism the help they need? I cannot answer this question, but I can just begin to describe the dysfunctional organization of the system.

Maybe autism doesn’t need to be cured

According to conventional wisdom, autism is a debilitating lifelong disability that leaves the victim tragically unable to develop basic life skills, and in the popular consciousness is loosely associated with mental retardation. What benefits could there possibly be to keeping autistics around?