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...nurture has been resolved. For centuries, the nature camp said that personalities are born, not made, that our character is pretty much formed by the time we pop out of the womb. The nurture people countered with the metaphor of the tabula rasa: our mind starts out as a blank slate, and it's how we are reared that determines what gets written on it. Modern science, though--especially our fast-growing understanding of the human genome--makes it clear that both sides are partly right. Nature endows us with inborn abilities and personality traits; nurture takes these raw materials...
...shaped by genes and how much by environment. And according to Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, we continue to give far too much credit to the latter. In a series of articles, a lecture tour and especially in a new book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking), Pinker argues that ignorance, prejudice and political correctness have kept scientists and the public from appreciating the power of our genes...
...Crimson had two excellent chances to open the scoring 15 minutes into the second half, but missed on both opportunities. Tomaritis sent a shot that just missed the far crossbar, and Morrow could not collect a bouncing ball on a point-blank chance before being blocked by Princeton goalkeeper Jason White...
Legislators handed President George W. Bush a blank check when the Senate approved a resolution supporting an attack on Iraq last week, Daniel Ellsberg ’52 said last night at the Boston Public Library...
...possession in the game and outshot the Eagles 15-6. BC never sustained any consistent offensive pressure through the course of the game, and didn’t force Crimson freshmen keepers Katie Shields and Maja Augustdottir to make many difficult saves. Shields’ save of a point-blank deflection off a corner kick stopped the closest touch the Eagles...