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...holes in the theoriesThe birth-order effect, for all its seeming robustness, is not indestructible. There's a lot that can throw it out of balance-particularly family dysfunction. In a 2005 study, investigators at the University of Birmingham in Britain examined the case histories of 400 abused children and the 795 siblings of those so-called index kids. In general, they found that when only one child in the family was abused, the scapegoat was usually the eldest. When a younger child was abused, some or all of the other kids usually were as well. Mistreatment...
...choosing their Premier [Sept. 24]. Selecting Pakistan's next Prime Minister in the backstreets of London or the hallowed halls of Washington is surely a step backward. Rather than debate which of Pakistan's erstwhile Premiers - both of whom have been tried, tested and found wanting - should be anointed, Britain and the U.S. should support a truly democratic process with an emphasis on justice, accountability and honesty. Otherwise, the common man looks set to remain sidelined, while the likes of a U.S.-sponsored Nawaz Sharif or Benazir Bhutto and al-Qaeda-Taliban partisans will reign supreme from their respective corners...
...hours extracted gas reaches the Nyhamna plant, where it's processed and sent to the U.K. via the world's longest underwater pipeline (it's a trip that can take as little as two days). In full swing, the $9.2 billion project will pump up to a fifth of Britain's gas. More than that, though, StatoilHydro's technological muscle on show at Ormen Lange can give it an advantage when bidding for projects in places like the Arctic, says Kjetil Bakken, an analyst at investment bank Fondsfinans in Oslo...
...later letters are those of an important public figure, dining with the King and earning a knighthood with an impassioned defense of Britain's role in the Boer War at a time when world opinion was against it, not least due to the British Army's use of scorched earth tactics. His final years were marked by tragedy - he lost his brother Innes and his son Kingsley to World War I - and by controversy, as he became Britain's most famous defender of spiritualism, convinced of our ability to communicate with the dead through a medium. (Among those he contacted...
...Reapers, an élite group who mastered a dangerous but accurate technique called "skip bombing" that required flying low enough to make bombs skip along the surface of the water before hitting a ship. Among the missions he led: a bloody assault on the Japanese stronghold of Rabaul, New Britain Island, that became a turning point for the Allies...