Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every age must develop its own version of the unobtainable and chimerical quick fix: the right abracadabra to select the winning lottery number, the proper prayer to initiate the blessed millennium, the correct formula to construct the philosopher's stone. In a technological age, we seek the transforming gene to elicit immediate salvation from within...
...that a human smart pill for routine production of kiddie geniuses lies just around the millennial corner. None of this punditry, however, will bear any relationship to current realities or reasonable prospects for the short-term future. Even so, the mice studied by Tsien et al. could help us correct two common errors in our thinking about genetics and intelligence...
BABY BLUE...OR PINK? Expectant moms: your guess about your baby's sex is, overall, no better than chance, says a survey. But researchers did find that women with 12 or more years of education were correct 71% of the time--far more than less-educated women, whose accuracy rate was 43%. More puzzling: the most accurate predictors were women who relied on dreams or gut feelings, not physical signals. Still, says Johns Hopkins study co-author Janet DiPietro, none of the above dare "run out and paint the nursery pink or blue...
Some criminologists, including Alfred Blumstein, director of the National Consortium on Violence Research, say Donohue and Levitt don't adequately factor in other variables, including the strong economy and crime-prevention measures. But if their research is proved correct, the duo say, crime stats should slide further over the next 20 years...
Once again the media, particularly television, have churned up a politically correct, Diana-like atmosphere of nostalgic national pseudo mourning. LEONARD HILL Darmstadt, Germany...