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...political complication on either side was the same: what diplomats refer to as linkage. Israel was prepared to pull back 20 miles from the Suez Canal to positions at Sinai's Mitla and Giddi passes. In return, Jerusalem expected Egypt to thin out its armor and artillery in Sinai, reopen the Suez Canal and, as a buffer, repopulate its ports of Ismailia, Suez and Port Said with civilians who fled the bitter cross-canal bombardments of the post-1967 war of attrition. Israel also insisted that Egypt issue a declaration forswearing further belligerency. For its part, Egypt wanted Israel...
...Tokyo's Ginza regularly glow late into the night. Competing admen joke that "the first people on the streets each morning are the ragpickers - and Dentsu men hurrying to work." In seeking new business, the firm's account executives are the most aggressive in Japan; they often refer to calls on prospective clients as attacks. Each summer a group of Dentsu workers climbs en masse to the top of Mount Fuji. No sooner do the panting executives reach the summit than they crowd into the mountaintop post office to send greeting cards to clients...
Wednesday, 8-8:30 p.m. E.D.T. People refer to Bill Moyers less often these days as "President Johnson's former press secretary." And for good reason. With his weekly Journal, now in its third year, he has established a more immediate identity: television's best regularly scheduled observer of the American scene. The Journal takes in a wide range of opinions of writers, scholars and ordinary concerned citizens as well as political pros. Mostly, however, it is distinguished by the host's earnest, well-prepared, civilized but dogged pursuit of matters that are not only of wide...
...Josiah Quincy gang probably believed they were justly honoring the first Tea Party with their dainty little tea service. Violence was not mentioned in any of the speeches nor did any of the speakers refer to the oppression which led to the celebration. For the celebrants in Faneuil Hall the struggle was over and done with; all that was left was to sit back and enjoy...
...particular population at a particular time, that results from genetic differences among individuals in the population. As defined and as estimated, the heritability applies only to a particular population of individuals at a particular time. Thus it is nonsense to speak about "the heritability of I.Q." We must refer to "the heritability of I.Q. performances among North German schoolchildren in 1973." That same trait may have a different heritability, higher or lower, in another population at another time. Now any population, say the white population of the United States, is itself heterogeneous both genetically and environmentally. That...