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...that behavioral geneticists now speak of the First Law of their field: that all behavioral traits are partly heritable. But studies that try to isolate a single gene for a behavioral trait have been fickle; many of putative genes-for-X have not held up in replications. Genes must exert their effects by acting together in complex combinations. A rough analogy: a computer program can have a trait, such as being easy to use, without necessarily having a single magical programming instruction that makes any program easy to use when added and any program hard to use when omitted...
...says. “It was definitely an eye-opener. The military is a very hierarchical organization. It attracts a certain type of person.” He says this kind of person is one who loves authority but would probably never have the chance to exert such power in the real world. The German military, in Kanz’s opinion, is “run by a bunch of pseudo-Rambos,” young drill sergeants who “have complete power over you” but lack the maturity to handle that kind of power...
...latest collection, A New Day At Midnight, is a set of 12 brand new songs that reflect Gray’s overarching mission to write and record music with personal meaning. He continues to avoid the pressures that fame, a solid first album, and a Grammy nomination tend to exert on the singer-songwriter. White Ladder fans will find that while Gray’s distinctive voice has not changed, A New Day At Midnight displays a very different sonic character from his debut album. Where Gray was upbeat and optimistic with hyped up rhythms and excessive energy on songs...
...conflict diamonds.” The Washington Post reports that al Qaeda launders millions of dollars through the diamond trade. Even the most jaded observer will have to admit that the flow of conflict diamonds must be stopped. Unfortunately, the Kimberly Process won’t exert enough pressure to stop their flow, and worse still, there are a lot of bad characters who will avoid the Kimberly Process’s squeeze...
...Carnegie in 1889 calling the accumulation of wealth "one of the worst species of idolatry" and hilariously praising the virtues of "honest poverty." Here's Andrew Mellon, Treasury Secretary under Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, arguing that when initiative is crippled by high taxes, an individual "will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends." This might have been written yesterday...