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...Smithsonian Institution today said it would delete controversial portions of a plannedexhibit featuring the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, in a bow to pressure from outraged WWII veterans groups and their supporters in Congress. "We made an error," said Smithsonian Secretary Michael Heyman. The 100,000 square-foot exhibit revised downward the official estimate of the number of American lives saved by the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to 63,000, from several hundred thousand. In addition, it focused on pictures and narrative about the Japanese who suffered and died. Rep. Peter...
Herrnstein made his name in behavioral science, not in research about IQ, Heyman said...
Whatever he wrote was not intended to hurt anyone, Heyman said...
...think that anything he wrote was mean-spirited," Heyman said. "You could think of it as just the opposite, that he thought people were wasting their money with false expectations in programs" like Head Start...
...think he believed he was working in a way to improve conditions for all people," Heyman said...