Judge Sauls's ruling came only hours after America's highest court questioned the authority under which the Florida court extended the original deadline for manual recounts by a week.

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The upshot was that Miami suspended its manual count, and said it would stick with its original results, made on November 8th.

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Dr. Edward Ritvo, professor emeritus at UCLA's medical school and one of the psychiatrists who wrote the original definition of autism for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, explains the phenomenon in a very different way.

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