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your report on the newly published genetic atlas of the world [Science, Jan. 16] states that its conclusions flatten those of The Bell Curve. But The History and Geography of Human Genes is primarily a study of the distribution of human genes and presents a kind of ``global family tree.'' This is far from a study of the distribution of intelligence among human beings, which is the focus of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein's book. All humans are closely related. Desperate attempts to reduce the impact of The Bell Curve [which holds that intelligence is determined by heredity...
Alike Under the Skin Your report on the newly published genetic atlas of the world [Jan. 16] states that its conclusions flatten those of The Bell Curve. But The History and Geography of Human Genes is primarily a study of the distribution of human genes and presents a kind of ``global family tree.'' This is far from a study of the distribution of intelligence among human beings, which is the focus of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein's book. While there is no doubt that all humans are closely related, desperate attempts to reduce the impact of The Bell Curve...
...threw his Curve, Princeton University Press put out The History and Geography of Human Genes by population geneticists Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza. Not only is the tome physically hefty (1,000 pages, 7 1/2 lbs.), but the evidence it contains may carry enough weight to flatten Murray's thesis once...
These are some of the plot elements of American leadership. The complex maturity of the national success brings with it, paradoxically, a diminution and dispersal. Hierarchies flatten out. Presidents of the U.S. and lesser leaders will be ground down, as the great families were. Scandals, like boll weevils (or special prosecutors), will chew into their administrations. Anyone's 15 minutes of fame is liable to end in a poofing flameout of indignity...
...easy to be critical, to flatten politicians who are not perfect, but our real challenge is to convert cynicism into action, and action into progress. It's easier to snicker at higher-ups than it is to critically probe our own foibles; it's easier to blame others when we have not yet faced up to our own responsibility for improving the state of our political affairs...