Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this adaptation of the Alfred Hitchcock film, an ocean liner is shipwrecked, and the passengers wiggle on their stomachs and climb into the lifeboat. What follows is an unpredictable set of instances testing bravado and intellect. The lucky passengers are a pathetic bunch, each one more unlikable than the next...
...eight or nine connections between neurons in the cerebral cortex are pruned back. The rule that governs this elimination is simple: use the connection or lose it. Children without a rich early life exposure to reading or numbers may be at a disadvantage that can register later as diminished intellect...
...larger role -- perhaps 60%, perhaps more -- and insist that it's almost impossible to nudge IQ upward by much after the earliest stage of life. Government attempts to do so, like the Head Start education program, have been a failure. Until we know what, if anything, works at raising intellect, say Murray and Herrnstein, let's stop trying. The Bell Curve's explosive contentions detonate under a cushion of careful shadings and academic formulations. Even so, they explode with a bang. To give credence to such ideas -- even when doing so with loud sighs of alas! -- is to resume some...
...This was the place that nourished her keen intellect," Alger said. "Today's setting is indeed a perfect tribute...
...Zdrok's actions play right into the notion of woman as sex object, according to Andrea Walsh, lecturer in Social Studies and Women's Studies. "Whatever she says about her intellect is contradicted by her image," Walsh says. "It perpetuates the idea that women's bodies are objects to be consumed by the male viewer...