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...focused on the fact that the two scholars gathered much of their data from questionable sources. In the acknowledgments to The Bell Curve, for example, Murray and Herrnstein say they "benefited especially from the advice" of Richard Lynn, a scholar who in 1991 wrote in the neo-eugenicist journal Mankind Quarterly that "the Caucasoids and the Mongoloids are the only two races that have made any significant contribution to civilization." Then there's J. Phillipe Rushton, a Canadian psychologist who suggested in 1986 that Nazi Germany's military prowess was connected to the purity of its gene pool. A rogue...
Zhirinovsky: I think we should divide ((the world up)) into spheres of influence. We should not collide against each other in areas like the Balkans or Central Asia. It is better for us to remain separate. For the good of mankind, there should be four centers of power in the world -- the United States, Europe, Russia, and China and Japan...
...viruses keep arising to challenge the vaccine makers. They may have gone undetected for centuries, inhabiting animal populations that have no contact with mankind. If people eventually encounter the animals -- by settling a new part of the rain forest, for example -- the virus can have the opportunity to infect a different sort of host...
...drying out much of Asia. The area also has global importance. Taxonomists believe it might be one of the best places in the world for studying biodiversity and how it evolves. Scientists have not even begun to examine the biological riches contained in the rugged hills. Says Arctander: "If mankind wants to preserve biodiversity, it makes sense to start in places like Vu Quang, which have proved able to sustain biodiversity for a long time...
...husband arrives on the scene. Violating a restraining order, he busts through the door only to be shot in the rear end by his loving ex-wife. Jack Willis plays the out-of-work alcoholic battering husband, Clyde, in possession of the coolest stage effect known to mankind. His butt keeps bleeding throughout the whole play. It starts with a little dribble in the seat of his jeans and proceeds to one giant, bloody, backside stain. Although his entrance is worth it just for the exquisite gore, it signals the death of the play...