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Forest Ancestors. To bolster his argument, McCracken notes that the ancestral stock of American Negroes came from heavily forested areas of West Africa, where no milk-producing cattle were kept. The remaining indigenous populations of West Africa have low lactase levels and high intolerance-as have 75% of most U.S. Negro groups tested; the highest rate reported among most whites is only about 19%. High proportions of American Indians, in the U.S. and Central and South America, are also unable to digest milk...
...international affairs, he was first secretary of the British embassy in Washington during World War II. From 1948 to 1968 he was with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), serving the last three years as its director general. Then Cornfeld recruited him as a celebrity to bolster I.O.S.'s prestige. Now, said Wyndham White, Cornfeld has "receded into the position of a minority shareholder." Though Cornfeld is still I.O.S.'s largest single shareholder, with 15% of the voting power, he has made no immediate plans for a comeback...
...eighth day of power, the Heath government was confronted with its first real crisis. London had already decided to bolster the 8,000-man garrison in Northern Ireland with 3,000 more British troops. Its decision followed a threat by Ulster's Protestant militants, led by the Rev. Ian Paisley, to hold a series of Orange Order parades of the kind that provoked last year's violence between Protestants and the Roman Catholic minority. The extra soldiers were needed sooner than anyone had expected...
...Harold Wilson, Heath saw his opportunity. "Ted's camp left nothing to chance," said one Tory. "Everybody was canvassed?everybody. Nothing was left undone. They treated it like a war and they were determined to win." At the party conference in 1965, Heath was chosen leader in order to bolster the Tories' strength against Wilson's Laborites...
...theologians argue that man's despoliation of nature has drawn encouragement in part from mistaken or misapplied Christian concepts. By correcting those concepts, they hope to bolster environmental concern with something that goes beyond moral fervor or social awareness. The God of Genesis, say these thinkers, did not give man a blank check when he said: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion . . . over every living thing." Too often this has been used as a text for exploitation, reducing nature to a collection of useful objects...