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...indecision, another writer breaks up her essay into brief passages, each presenting a separate thought on her decision not to have a child. Digging into the book, the reader meets a Vietnamese immigrant struggling with tradition, a young writer working in a bagel shop to pay rent, a college dropout discussing the problems of our education system and a woman with epilepsy. Statements on e-mail romances, corrupt politics and violence are all present, addressing the concerns of contemporary society. The novel's contributors comprise a fairly limited circle in that they share an obvious common trait: all are writers...
...issue of her personal romantic preferences raised its irrelevant head--in Six Days, Seven Nights. For this is a castaway comedy with a stronger-than-usual admixture of action sequences thrown in to please her co-star's boyish fans. His Quinn is a charter pilot and social dropout. Her Robin is a nervous small-plane passenger and magazine editor. And they are forced to survive on a tropical island when their plane is forced down by a storm...
Still, as critics emphasize and Hamer himself acknowledges, genes alone do not control the chemistry of the brain. Ultimately, it is the environment that determines how these genes will express themselves. In another setting, for example, it is easy to imagine that Hamer might have become a high school dropout rather than a scientist. For while he grew up in an affluent household in Montclair, N.J., he was hardly a model child. "Today," he chuckles, "I probably would have been diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder and put on Ritalin." In his senior year in high school, though, Hamer discovered organic...
Affirmative-action proponents decry as a national tragedy the fact that black admissions to Berkeley make up not 5.6% but 2.4% of the freshman class. But what happens after admission? Affirmative-action proponents don't tell you that the dropout rate for blacks at Berkeley is 42%, vs. 16% for whites...
Given the huge academic handicap burdening black students admitted under affirmative action--their average SAT scores were 288 points below the Berkeley average--this dropout rate is understandable. These students were arbitrarily thrown into an environment with students far more advanced academically. The result was predictable: failure. Even more tragic is the fact that these bright black students, as social theorist Thomas Sowell puts it, "were perfectly qualified to be successes somewhere else" but were instead "artificially turned into failures by being admitted to high-pressure campuses, where only students with exceptional academic backgrounds can survive...