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Just down Main Street across the Longfellow Bridge loom the skyscrapers of Boston's Government Center. To the south, the Prudential and Hancock buildings stand starkly against the sky. To the north and west, the Sonesta Hotel and MIT complete the compass of tall modern architecture...
...coming shape of America. Not so Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky of the University of California at Davis. In a new book, Genetic Diversity and Human Equality, Dobzhansky agrees with Herrnstein that the present trend toward making people's environments-and educations -equal will cause hereditary differences to loom larger. And IQs are indeed largely inheritable, Dobzhansky says, citing 50 independent studies in eight different countries. But even if intelligent people intermarry and have intelligent children, the IQ is a narrow concept and there are many other traits that make people successful or unsuccessful. Therefore Dobzhansky denies that a meritocracy would...
...month, while more than 2.5 million retired men and women subsist on a social security pension of $2.40 a day. Unemployment is increasing, the housing shortage has worsened for low-income families, and prices have risen 13% in the past two years. For millions, such gross inequalities seem to loom larger than the cold war specter of Communism...
Also ahead of the Crimson are Michigan State, B.U., and B.C. Tonight's game, however, will not loom significantly in the standings unless an upset takes place...
Doing Penance. Finally, Paul's anger and rebelliousness, his frustrated pride, seem to be directly distilled from Brando's career during the 1960s, which now in retrospect loom as his purgatory years. The world of show business began doing penance for having idolized him by trying to cut him down to size. He was criticized for intellectual pretension as well as for being too primitive; he was accused of being too mannered and self-indulgent as an actor as well as of sleepwalking through parts just for the money; he was berated for not returning to the stage...