Word: jensen
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Discrediting this notion must be done carefully because myths frequently have bases in facts, and intelligence differentiation has long been a subject of research. Most everyone today knows of Arthur R. Jensen, who asserts that Blacks are less intelligent that whites on the basis of IQ scores--a trait he says is largely inherited. And his work is only the latest of many. From early in the 19th century to the present, dozens of scientists have weighed brains, measured skulls, and tested millions, sometimes concluding that the African mind stood about midway between the Caucasian and gorilla in intelligence. Though...
DIED. Alfred Jensen, 77, Guatemalan-born painter whose lushly colored, checkerboard-patterned paintings were inspired by abstruse mathematical theories and the architecture of ancient civilizations; of cancer; in Livingston...
Many investors and the money market funds are naturally fearful of any moves to limit these high-paying deposits. Says David Jensen, a Chicago lawyer who is moving his savings out of certificates of deposit and into a money market fund: "Restrictions on them would interfere with my free-enterprise right to get the best rate of interest." Adds Thomas Anderson, vice president of the Kemper Money Market Fund: "We have allowed the small saver to participate in the high yields that have long been available to only the large investor." Restrictions on the funds would be against the general...