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...hurricane season is here, and if you're a resident of Florida, you know what that means: It means you have the IQ of bean dip." --DAVE BARRY...
...that advice grows with each new study on the topic, as a paper released last week reminds us. Just one drink a day (12 oz. of beer or 4 oz. of wine) during the first three months of pregnancy is associated with a 2-point drop in overall IQ by the time the child is 10, according to a report in the June issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. The effect shows up most clearly in certain visual tasks--like fitting pieces of a puzzle into an empty space--and was strongest among African-American children...
...might expect, the effects on IQ and cognitive abilities became more pronounced if moms continued to drink throughout their pregnancy or consumed more alcohol. Conversely, the children of women who stopped drinking during pregnancy fared better than those of women...
...might fill the position? Robert Zoellick, the deputy secretary of state who has long dreamed of the Treasury job, is no longer thought likely to get it. Zoellick, a brilliant if sometimes brittle player who has about 20 IQ points on everyone else in Washington, may have assumed that he would get Treasury in exchange for backing up Condoleezza Rice at State for two years. But if there is no real chance to make economic policy in the Treasury slot, Zoellick probably doesn't belong there. A more likely candidate now is Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, a 53-year...
...mostly in animals--that behavior can be altered with carefully repeated drills and rewards. In 1987, Ivar Lovaas at UCLA published a small study with huge repercussions. He reported that 9 out of 19 autistic children taught for 40 hours a week with behaviorist methods had big jumps in IQ and were able to pass first grade; only 1 out of 40 in control groups did so. It was the first bright ray of hope in autism...