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...editor Robert A. Moffitt, who declined to comment specifically on the Hoxby-Rothstein debate, said that AER’s policy about data availability had been in effect at the time, although not strictly enforced. In an e-mail, Moffitt wrote that Hoxby’s paper was published “prior to the strengthening of our data availability policy,” which occurred last March...
ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR It has often been suggested that childhood maltreatment can create an antisocial adult. New research by Terrie Moffitt of London's Kings College on a group of 442 New Zealand men who have been followed since birth suggests that this is true only for a genetic minority. Again, the difference lies in a promoter that alters the activity of a gene. Those with high-active monoamine oxidase A genes were virtually immune to the effects of mistreatment. Those with low-active genes were much more antisocial if maltreated, yet--if anything--slightly less antisocial if not maltreated...
...their behavior at regular intervals. As with the earlier research, scientists found that neither genes alone nor childhood abuse alone could explain adult violence. But of the boys who had both mutation and early abuse, fully 85% had committed a violent act as an adult. The implication, says Terrie Moffitt, a professor of psychology at Wisconsin: "Genes influence people's susceptibility or resistance to environmental 'pathogens.'" Someone with a low genetic propensity will have to be pushed very hard to become violent; another individual with a different genetic makeup might have a hair trigger...
...this study is hardly the last word on the genetic roots of violence. There are almost certainly other genes involved and other kinds of life stress that can contribute to violence. Moffitt and her colleagues are already planning more experiments to isolate other factors that might be involved. As for predicting whether a particular child will become violent, no one can be sure when that might be possible. For now, we will have to deal with kids like the King brothers the way we always have: one case at a time. --By Michael D. Lemonick. Reported by Alice Park/New York
...even at her peak she had a pretty hard time with Chris Evert and Margaret Court. Sheryl Swoopes is more dazzling, and Mia Hamm combines finesse and power in what may be a palimpsest for the New Athletic Woman. But before any of them, there was Billie Jean Moffitt King, 20 times a champion at Wimbledon, who changed the way we look at female athletes--and, more important, changed the way they look at one another. "She was a crusader fighting a battle for all of us," said Navratilova. "She was carrying the flag; it was all right...