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...single gene determines even the most concrete aspect of my physical anatomy, say the length of my right thumb. The very notion of a gene "for" something as complex as "intelligence" lapses into absurdity. Intelligence is an array of largely independent and socially defined mental attributes, not a measure of a single something, secreted by one gene, measurable as one number and capable of arranging human diversity into one line ordered by relative mental worth...
President Clinton, it seems, will go to almost any length to keep Hillary's name in the public eye--even halfway around the world to New Zealand to meet with SIR EDMUND HILLARY. The White House has penciled in a meeting with the Mount Everest conqueror, 80, a living legend in his homeland and probably the most famous New Zealander ever (his face even graces the local $5 bill), during Clinton's state visit next week following the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Auckland. Sir Edmund won't, however, meet the Rodham Clinton Hillary, who is staying home...
...academic stars. Many home-educated students, like apprentice chef Rebecca Durkee, 22, of Livonia, N.Y., and Katie Harwood, 22, of Logan, Utah, a hospital accounting clerk, don't go to college at all. Nor are all home-schooling parents Bible-thumping Christians teaching their kids at apron-string length to protect them from sex, drugs and Darwin. In the gruesome wake of recent school shootings, a new cadre of parents are wondering whether home schooling is the best way to shield their kids from bullets. Ben's and Rebecca's parents did keep them close in a highly structured setting...
...sank every cent you had, or maybe didn't have, into making a movie, a funny, feature-length film. Somehow, you were able to talk Teri Garr, Al Franken, Bob Balaban and Roy Scheider into acting in it. And let's say that the movie made the circuit of independent film festivals in 1998, and won a couple of Best Picture-type awards. You'd expect that one of the studios would pick up your masterpiece and distribute it, right...
...TriBeCa to a dingier but more spacious Brooklyn apartment without a kitchen, strictly to accommodate his vintage bikes. "I'm obsessive," he says. "My place is pretty much a garage." In May, Mike Frankovich, 25, a student and founder of the Hollywood Rat Pack scooter club, rode the entire length of U.S. Route 66 on his Vespa P200E...