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        Can video games become a force for good?...
       
      
        By Alyssa Abkowitz
      
      
      So this is virtual reality. [image-1]A mount rests on the crown of my head, and a small video screen attached to it drops down in front of my eyes. Wires run down my back and attach the video display to a laptop that&#39;s carefully situated in an unzipped canvas backpack that weighs down my shoulders. And thick headphones cover my ears. I&#39;m outside a &quot;room&quot; constructed out of rough cloth held up by two-by-fours, about to play AR/Fa&ccedil;ade, a game
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        The numbers are startling: As many as one out of 166 children will develop autism. While researchers struggle to find out why, parents and their kids struggle to cope....
       
      
        By Alyssa Abkowitz
      
      
      Mary Grace Mauney leans back and stretches her legs out toward the sky. The squeaky chains get louder as she pushes forward, and her long, dark strands of hair blow past her haunting blue eyes. For a moment, her backside leaves the yellow seat of the swing as she lifts off into the air. She methodically pulls her splayed legs back, flexing her hamstrings, and her body follows, swaying past the wooden bars. Her forearms wrap around the chains. She
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