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...truth, the number of human genes changed nothing. Venter's remarks concealed two whopping nonsequiturs: that fewer genes implied more environmental influences and that 30,000 genes were too few to explain human nature, whereas 100,000 would have been enough. As one scientist put it to me a few weeks later, just 33 genes, each coming in two varieties (on or off), would be enough to make every human being in the world unique. There are more than 10 billion combinations that could come from flipping a coin 33 times, so 30,000 does not seem such a small...
...first decades of the 20th century, nature held sway over nurture in most fields. In the wake of World War I, however, three men recaptured the social sciences for nurture: John B. Watson, who set out to show how the conditioned reflex, discovered by Ivan Pavlov, could explain human learning; Sigmund Freud, who sought to explain the influence of parents and early experiences on young minds; and Franz Boas, who argued that the origin of ethnic differences lay with history, experience and circumstance, not physiology and psychology...
...empty shore, contemplating a young life gone wrong, a future full of bleak ambiguity. But that obvious reference somehow enhances Sweet Sixteen, unselfconsciously connecting it to an honorable and engaging modern screen tradition. Written by Paul Laverty without a wasted or imprecise word, it refuses to sentimentalize Liam or explain him sociologically. It just lets him live--sometimes jauntily, sometimes tormentedly, but always with our sympathies, our doubtless doomed hopes for him, fully engaged. --By Richard Schickel
Before current or future retirees can formulate an agenda, they need to figure out what gives them satisfaction and pleasure in the first place, say Sedlar and Miners. The authors explain that knowing your "drivers"--they identify 30 of them, such as the need to be creative, powerful or part of the action--helps you select activities that best align with your needs. Sedlar encourages people to give themselves directives such as "I owe it to myself to know, and finally have the guts to say, that a certain driver is important to me" and "If I've had power...
Thus my Ivy League education began. My parents and I sat motionless for the next 15 minutes as the guidance counselor proceeded to explain all about the Ancient Eight and early decision and connections and need-blind financial aid and by the way, how come I had never heard of Harvard...