Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humidity that makes it scarcely tolerable. The weather clings, like a low fever you cannot shake off. The Indians who first lived here had the sense to take off their buckskins as soon as things hotted up and sit, thereafter, up to their necks in ponds. This behavior is no longer permissible in the "City of Spindles...
Radcliffe's honor system, which covered library use, and social and academic behavior, formally existed as part of the student government from 1907 to 1961. But unlike honor systems in many schools today, Radcliffe students were not required to report on each other's infractions--that is, until 1945. Radcliffe only began to administer unproctored exams a year later...
Adam Matheny of the Louisville Twin Study, the oldest of U.S. twin study groups, says the "mechanism for change is laid down the moment a child is conceived" and that the genes provide a "rough sketch of life." Some psychologists who stress the influence of genes on behavior often speak as if nurture were a by-product of nature. "All of us make our own environment," says Developmental Psychologist Sandra Scarr of the University of Virginia. Lykken makes the same point: "The environment molds your personality, but your genes determine what kind of environment you have, seek and attend...
...Leon Kamin, fear that the Minnesota results will be used to blame the poor and downtrodden for their own condition. Political liberals have long believed that crime and poverty are largely by-products of destructive environments. As a result, they are usually suspicious of biological or genetic explanations for behavior. "These are very ambiguous data that can be interpreted any way you want to," says Kamin. "I'm not saying that anyone is falsifying facts or anything, just that we really know very, very little." For the Minnesota researchers and their allies, however, their study is just one more proof...
Protecting and leading the men of the platoon are the squad sergeants, who, under the obligatory incompetent lieutenant, control the lives and fates of the grunts. Elias (Willem Dafoe) is the idealist, trying to preserve some code of moral behavior at the end of the world. Barnes (Tom Berenger) is a creature of the war, a drawling, scarred, amoral survivor. Both are killers. The only difference is how they go about it. As Chris describes it in one of his voice-over "letter home," the two sergeants fight "for the possession of my soul...