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disorder which begins during childhood or
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diagnosis and Tourette's is not always correctly crisis which led to the resignation
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cases in adulthood are rare and Tourette's does not Mohamad.
affect intelligence or life expectancy. Education is  The United States and the Taliban
an integral part of management of the syndrome, sign an agreement which
and explanation and reassurance are often sufficient.
The cause is believed to involve environmental and
unknown genetic factors. The condition was named
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 This picture is an oil-on-canvas painting by
Danish artist Anna Petersen (1845–1910),
entitled Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the
Hothouse, painted in 1884. She was one of the
few Danish female artists of that period, as it
was difficult for women to gain access to the
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts; it would
have been inappropriate for them to paint male
nudes, and socially acceptable subjects were
limited, with still life, particularly flowers, seen
as being most appropriate.

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distracting the girl from the task in hand, and
the overturned pot among the plants in the
hothouse may represent a motif of death. The
painting is now in the collection of the National
Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen.

Painting credit: Anna Petersen

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