Word: intellective
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...human intellect, thus liberated, proved prodigious; the fruits of its accomplishments are ever present in the developed world and tantalizingly seductive to those peering in from outside the gates. John Paul is not a fundamentalist who wants to repeal the Enlightenment and destroy the tools of technology; the most traveled, most broadcast Pope in history knows the advantages of jet airplanes and electronics...
...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...
...most of the performance, he struts his manliness and often gets into a battle of the bulge with Rittenhouse (Hans Canosa). Canosa is also the director of the production, and casting himself in this role is a suspicious move, since Rittenhouse is the loftiest of characters in terms of intellect and smugness. Canosa appears comfortable, almost too comfortable, punctuating sentences with a cigar that is never lit but just licked at the end for effect. His character is enigmatic but haughty and egocentric...
...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...