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...Moynihan report that attributed many problems of blacks to their matriarchal families; the 1966 study by sociologist James Coleman that seemed to eliminate poor schools as a cause of failures, leading educators to indict black home life instead; and the controversial 1969 paper in which Psychologist Arthur Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley suggested that there might be an innate intellectual inferiority in the Negro...
...Jensen weighed the factors that determine I.Q. and concluded that 80% are hereditary and only 20% environmental. Herrnstein goes beyond Jensen in stating that heredity will become even more important if scientists find external ways to improve intelligence. His reasoning: "Suppose we do find an environmental handle on I.Q.-something, let us say, in the gestating mother's diet. Presumably society would try to give everyone access to the favorable factor. But if we make the environment much more uniform, then an even larger proportion of the variation in I.Q. will be attributable to the genes. The average person...
CLEAR CREEK is perhaps the best of the many new ecology magazines. A quarter-fold tabloid in the manner of such hip-style San Francisco predecessors as Rolling Stone and the late Earth Times, the 500 monthly is described, somewhat pretentiously, by Editor Pennfield Jensen as "a journal of the bio-renaissance dedicated to positive thought and action. " The first issue examined in detail the whys and wherefores of the big January oil spill in San Francisco Bay and publicized a little-known fight to save an obscure Texas wilderness known as Big Thicket. The current number contains a well...
North Vietnamese gunners shelled Khe Sanh in South Vietnam's northwest corner for the fifth straight day, Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported from Quang Tri. About 500 shells have been lobbed into the base this week...
...BACH Society orchestra can claim fame as the orchestra that brought you the "Concerto Scene" in Love Story. This weekend, though, there's a real concert, featuring two works for soprano performed by Pene lope Jense. Mrs. Jensen, a graduate of the Ed School, has not sung in this kar with the unmistakable Frenchness area since the Monteverdi Vespers of 1966. since the Monteverdi Vespers of 1966. since then, she has soloed with the Cleveland Orchestra under Sixteen Ehrling and the Atlanta Symphony under Robert Shaw; Saturday she performs the Bach "Wedding Cantata" and the rarely performed Quatre Poems Hindous...