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Convinced that good research starts at the bedside rather than in the laboratory, Good opted for pediatrics because it would give him an opportunity to study immune system defects, which are most often found in children (victims usually die of disease well before adulthood). "Besides," says Good, who admits that he has been tempered by his own battle with disease, "I like kids. They're tough...
Died. Elizabeth Bowen, 73, Irish novelist whose sensitive tales of young girls awakening to the reality of adulthood (The Death of the Heart, The House in Paris) earned her comparison with Virginia Woolf and Willa Gather; of lung cancer; in London. Descended from Irish gentry dating back to the age of Cromwell, Bowen moved to England as a child, briefly studied art, then found her forte during the '20s as a writer. Among her best books was The Heat of the Day, an account of life in London during World...
Kangas found an unexpected variation between IQ changes in men and women: among men, those with the highest IQs as children showed the greatest increase in IQ scores as adults. But among women, those who were brightest as youngsters made the smallest gains in adulthood. Most of the female subjects were housewives or held undemanding jobs, while all of the males had stimulating careers. For this reason, Kangas attributes the male-female IQ differences to his subjects' jobs-or lack of them. Though he admits that he cannot prove it, he theorizes that performing menial tasks may not only...
...last fling before adulthood closed in? The jobs Fuller held in early manhood might lead one to think so: machine fitter in a cotton mill. Navy ensign during World War I, managing exports for a meat packer and sales for a truck company. The presidency of the Stockade Building System (1922-27) sounds more like it. Fuller and his father-in-law copatented a tough, light substitute for bricks that eliminated the need for hod carriers and mortars. Holes in the blocks were lined up and cement poured in. Both the brick industry and the unions ganged up against...
...stories are as far from those he wrote a half decade ago as Rabbit Redux is from Rabbit Run. What Museums and Women finally signals is Updike's absolute progression away from his rural Pennsylvanian root experiences, their '40s and '50s settings, and the themes of adolescence and young adulthood which went with them...