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...Such examples might be little more than anecdotal, but personality tests show that while firstborns score especially well on the dimension of temperament known as conscientiousness-a sense of general responsibility and follow-through-later-borns score higher on what's known as agreeableness, or the simple ability to get along in the world. "Kids recognize a good low-power strategy," says Sulloway. "It's the way any sensible organism sizes up the niches that are available...
...bitter, and economically disastrous conflict of 1995. But such a stand-down would also badly damage Sarkozy's tireless self-promotion as a fearless reformer bent on pushing through long-delayed change that predecessors have backed away from - a reputation he'll need the public to believe in and follow if he wants to continue his policy of "rupture...
...mining on the Antarctic continent itself, which can be lifted by unanimous agreement at any time. That is highly unlikely, but just a couple of decades ago, so was the prospect that the ice caps would melt. The British claim, and those that are sure to follow, amounts to a long-shot move that enables resorting to a future temptation. For the sake of Antarctica, let's hope we've got beyond oil and gas before that temptation ever arises...
...Commitment to Care My son received a diagnosis of Ewing's sarcoma when he was only 8 years old [Aug. 20]. He is now 15 and thriving. We go for follow-up examinations every year, and he is involved in clinical trials at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I hope your article will help other parents realize that follow-up visits are necessary to make sure our children grow up to be healthy adults. Marcy Bucy, SUNLAND, CALIF...
...depend on popular will for legitimacy. Instead, Harvard’s governors derive their authority from the fact that all of us have consented to come here to learn and to enter into a system where we don’t make the rules but are expected to follow them. When Ryan Petersen boldly cries out, “I refuse to accept that this is a faculty and administrator’s world!” he rails against a system that he explicitly consented to participate in with the inscrutable immaturity of someone who pays for a guided...