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While scientists argue about autism’s cause and cost, a group of Auburn faculty and staff members quietly give a voice to children who often can’t speak for themselves.

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Written by Suzanne Johnson
Feature design by Lizzie Moore
Illustration by Robert DeMichiell

Summertime, and the living is easy. Breezy. Well, okay—humid. There’s more time to relax and enjoy life—until you high-step into a bed of fire ants, keel over from the heat, char the ribs into a leathery lump and drive that golf ball straight into a trap.
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The Sound & The Fury

Written by Suzanne Johnson
Feature design by Shannon Bryant-Hankes
Photography by Jeff Etheridge

Nick began babbling before his first birthday, sounding out “mama” and “dada” to his parents, Montgomery residents Jennifer ’07 and Keith Sellers. Then he fell silent.
Worried about hearing loss, his parents began an endless round of doctor visits. “Don’t worry,” experts said. “Boys talk later than girls.”
They watched and waited. Nick drew more withdrawn.
“By the time he was 2, .....

Raiders of the Lost Art

Written by Betsy Robertson
Feature design by Shannon Bryant-Hankes

With the stroke of a brush, Nashville artist John Baeder immortalizes American roadside culture and a disappearing American icon.

Diners are to John Baeder what the Egyptian pyramids are to archaeologists: life-sized time capsules full of mid-century artifacts and the greasy footprints of humans whose lives once intersected over coffee mugs and slabs of meatloaf.
“I saw them as temples of a lost civilization,” Baeder recalls of his initial fascination for America’s roadside short-order restaurants. His passion first began to stir at the counter of .....

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