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...Frank and Harold Levinson of Downstate Medical Center report in the Journal of Child Psychiatry that primary dyslexia is caused by some as yet unexplained defect in the nerve pathways that connect the inner ear, which helps control balance, with the cerebellum, the part of the brain that controls coordination. The result of this defect, they claim, is a sort of permanent motion sickness that affects a child's balance and scrambles incoming visual signals. In fact, they say, 112 out of 115 New York City children known to have primary dyslexia were tested and found to be afflicted...
...scarcely match his gift for inspirational leadership. Partly as a result, his prediction has a hollow ring; the U.F.W.A. is fighting now to stay alive. Membership, which totaled 50,000 in California alone in 1971, is down to 10,000. Faced with the certainty that still more growers will defect to the rival International Brotherhood of Teamsters when their contracts with the farm workers' union expire this spring, Chavez last week intensified the latest nationwide boycott of non-U.F.W.A. California table grapes that began last year. The boycott also extends to non-U.F.W.A. iceberg lettuce...
...hurry to get them on film, to make the full balanced works of the European masters. But through it all there is a sense of such vitality and interest, a feeling of place and mood, an atmosphere of light and detail, that one can overlook so much of defect in the spirit of the whole...
Thus began the deal that astonished the sports world last week: Miami Dolphin Running Backs Csonka and Kiick and Wide Receiver Warfield, stalwarts of the Dolphin dynasty, are going to defect to the Toronto Northmen of the W.F.L. the season after next, when their present contracts expire. To jump, they signed a joint contract that totals more than $3 million in salary, bonus money and benefits. Csonka will receive close to $1.4 million over a three-year period, Warfield $900,000, and Kiick $700,000 -three to four tunes more than they might have expected from the Dolphins. Further, they...
...similarly controversial dispute involves genetic influence on behavioral traits, Beckwith said. A recent English study found that a large number of overly-aggressive males with severe acne who became criminals had a genetic defect. From these findings, the scientists concluded criminality has a genetic basis...