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...article "Nakasone's World-Class Blunder" [EDUCATION, Oct. 6] contains errors. First, you claim that H.H. Goddard "insisted that on the basis of IQ scores vast numbers of Italian, Jewish and Russian immigrants were 'high-grade defectives' or morons. "Goddard never wrote any such thing. What he wrote was that of those immigrants screened at Ellis Island who were suspected of being "feeble-minded" on the basis of casual observations, a majority scored in the "feeble-minded" range on certain verbal and performance tests. They were never claimed by Goddard to be a representative sample of any national group...
...three of the National Skateboard Association titles previously awarded and is expected to roll past the competition for a fourth this weekend at the N.S.A. championships in Anaheim, Calif. Hawk turned pro three years ago, and since then his aerobatic antics have appeared in a Mountain Dew commercial, Italian and Japanese TV shows about him, and the films Thrashin and Police Academy IV. His income is soaring toward six figures, and a skateboard and a line of sports clothing bear his name. What does he like to do with his downtime? Well, a little surfing, and "I really like just...
...young Italian Jesuit missionary, Giuseppe Castiglione, arrived in Peking and, like other Jesuits of his time, soon went to work for the Emperor, Kang xi. For a half-century, under the name Lang Shining, Castiglione served as a court painter, brilliantly blending Western and Eastern styles. Lang Shining's success is evident in Treasures of the Forbidden City (Viking; 262 pages; $75); his monumental painting of a deer-hunting party is one of only 100 art objects chosen for this book from more than 910,000 items in Peking's Palace Museum. The selection, compiled and annotated by Zhu Jiajin...
...civilization. Then in 1915 the Turks massacred more than a million Armenians, leaving their historic lands desolate and sending the survivors fleeing abroad. The splendidly illustrated The Armenians (Rizzoli; 288 pages; $75) aims to restore to view some of the beauty of this brutally wounded culture. Various Armenian and Italian scholars have contributed chapters on the arts, history, religion and literature...
...When the Italian cargo ship M.S.C. Napoli was critically damaged during a storm off Branscombe beach in southwestern England on Jan. 18, locals waited for the wave of pollution to land on their shore-line...