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This all makes sense, Skuse and his colleagues suggest, if you postulate a gene--or, more likely, a cluster of genes--on the X chromosome that governs social skills, and if those genes are activated only when they're passed on by the father. This phenomenon, called genetic imprinting, is known to occur in humans. Thus, says Skuse, boys are genetically destined to be inept because they get their X chromosome from Mom. Girls, by contrast, are socially adroit because they get one X from Dad (not that it did him any good, since he got it from...
...metallic gold light of New York's Park Avenue Synagogue, the students approach Jonathan Levin's burnished casket, cluster for a moment, then take their seats. Over 250 come, black and Latino students from the William H. Taft High School in the South Bronx, where Jonathan taught English. The school has a history of assaults and violence; in 1994, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sent a dozen policemen to patrol the surrounding streets...
...Core identified a broad range of slices of the fundamental areas a liberal education ought to include," says Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the history of science. "It was not a broad cluster of subjects, but dealt with knowledge within well-defined and interesting areas...
...encouraging to see the College taking a hard line against the final clubs, an archaic cluster of organizations whose divisive impact poisons Harvard's social atmosphere. One of the most notable charges leveled in Epps' letter--that the College has been approached by women alleging sexual harassment--is as serious as it is unsurprising. The discriminatory ethos of the clubs, along with their exclusivity, conspire to create an environment which imbalances the relationship between male "hosts" and female "visitors...
...oranges, spotted seed pods, a papier mache mold of a sock, and a tower of Yardley soap boxes into intimate marvels. These laconic sculptures demand (and deserve) our thought and time, as do Orozco's elegant photographs which reveal his sensitivity to natural mysteries and visual puns, like a cluster of sleeping sheep in Common Dream, or a languid hose seeping water on the floor in Hose (Manguera Dormida). His small, subtle observations play beautifully off Vija Celmins' meticulous renderings of expansive night skies and the late Felix Gonzalez Torres' monumental billboard of transient footprints in the sand...