Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During Stalin's iron rule, he commanded virtually unlimited support for his outlandish agricultural schemes, controlled the direction of research in areas far beyond his competence-and set back Soviet genetics nearly a generation. Indeed, when Izvestia last week belatedly revealed the death of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko at age 78 in a brief back-page announcement, his bitter legacy was still all too apparent. Only now are the biological sciences in the U.S.S.R. finally recovering from what the American geneticist I. Michael Lerner calls "the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science...
...reputation rested on his prominent role in the debate about heredity and intelligence. His studies of identical twins who grew up apart indicated that heredity-rather than environment-explains most of the differences in IQ scores. But shortly before Burt's death in 1971 at the age of 88, there were academic murmurs that the psychologist's data were suspect. For one thing, the statistical correlation between IQ scores of his identical twins remained the same to the third place after the decimal point as more and more twins were studied-an extraordinary and highly unlikely coincidence...
...powerful enough to see his ideas on heredity and intelligence translated into educational policy. As a government adviser in the 1940s, he played a prominent role in setting up the three-tier British school system that pigeonholed students on the basis of an IQ test given at age eleven...
...Strategy and "court sense"-the subtleties of caroms and positioning -can serve to neutralize male advantages in strength. One Chicago woman, however, reports a feminine disadvantage: "Women are more reluctant to push and shove the other player than men, and that sort of aggressiveness is necessary in this game." Age does not seem to be a factor. The top woman player in the country is 40-year-old Peggy Steding, a professional racquetballer from Odessa, Texas. She has won every major title in the past four years, routinely whipping opponents young enough to be her daughters...
...figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fit in solid America." The stalk of this simple theme sends out a profusion of memories. Most are contributed by Brave Orchid, the indomitable mother who lost two children in China, came to America at age 45 and produced six more offspring. Although her husband's laundries fail on both coasts of the U.S., her growing family maintains a beleaguered survival. To Brave Orchid, all non-Chinese are "ghosts," alien, powerful presences who are otherwise beneath consideration. Her new life consists of uneasy dealings with "Meter Reader...