Word: non
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Rather, say behavioral geneticists, the "non-shared" environment is where the action is. Jimmy and Johnny find different peer groups at school, or different niches in a single peer group; Jimmy becomes valedictorian, Johnny becomes trouble. What's a mother to do? Non-shared environments outside the home, not parents, get the blame in Harris' theory...
...non-shared environments can also exist inside the home. Maybe, for example, parents treat siblings differently--doting on Jimmy and screaming at Johnny, say--and that is why Johnny went bad. If Harris is to demolish the nurture assumption, she must somehow dismiss such dynamics...
...some scholars naively assume, but rather was caused by it. Maybe. Still, maybe the screaming made things worse. Or maybe mommy was subtly favoring Jimmy all along. How would you know for sure? The more puncturing of arguments Harris does, the more you realize that the whole issue of non-shared environments in the home is disconcertingly complex, nearly opaque to science...
...said to be very ambitious for her son, as is Queen Noor for Hamzah. One palace insider speculates that despite Hussein's wishes, Hassan will name Rashid regent. His ascension could spark challenges from Hamzah or Ali, especially given that Rashid's Pakistani mother, like Abdullah's, is a non-Arab. "Anyone who assumes that the Hashemite family is united or will remain united about the succession issue is making a mistake," says the source...
...attacks suggests a professional operation. That, together with the absence of any major local anti-U.S. militancy, is leading U.S. intelligence to concentrate on outside Islamic fundamentalist groups -- although there is little to indicate the involvement of any state-sponsored group. "The growing number of non-state actors committing such acts is a problem for intelligence agencies," says Waller, "because they're much more difficult to penetrate...