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...politically correct position--that "intelligence" is actually a bundle of different mental capabilities that people have in varying amounts, and that these capabilities can be strongly affected by environmental factors--leaves room for a large genetic component. Few Ashkenazi Jews, I suspect, would trade their genes for a random draw from the gene pool, whatever their fear of colon cancer and whatever they may have felt (and said) about Charles Murray, notorious co-author of The Bell Curve...
...that my promising career is being prematurely terminated by a random disease," Kuo, 33, said on his page on the World Wide Web, which has attracted more than 21,000 visitors...
...morning session's attendants-Faculty members and lecturers in social studies, members of the social studies committee, and 15 to 20 juniors and seniors-will join Habermas in a discussion about social theory and Habermas' own work. The students will be picked by a random lottery...
...gleaning significance every time Alan Greenspan sniffles is coming up short on the price-volatility question. (Maybe they'll blame El Nino.) Some suspect that rising volatility signals a market about to run out of gas, but then they run out of evidence. Others conclude that this is a random event with no meaning...
Since most of that time, undergraduates would be racing to get random signatures all over their study cards as well as investigating 200-person classes in rooms built for 40, they would be far too tired on Friday night to do anything but collapse. And since storage would only be open for three hours during that three-fourths of a Friday, house masters and administrators would be assured that every undergraduate would...