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Raised in Baltimore, the son of an auto body-shop owner, Palmisano grew up in a big, solidly middle-class, Catholic family, learning the ways of the world at an early age from his grade-school classmates, some of whose fathers in the rough, corruption-rife port city were being indicted for various crimes...
...their field: that all behavioral traits are partly heritable. But studies that try to isolate a single gene for a behavioral trait have been fickle; many of putative genes-for-X have not held up in replications. Genes must exert their effects by acting together in complex combinations. A rough analogy: a computer program can have a trait, such as being easy to use, without necessarily having a single magical programming instruction that makes any program easy to use when added and any program hard to use when omitted...
When you live in a rough neighborhood, it's natural to want to keep an eye on your neighbors?especially when, unlike Totoro, they have nuclear ambitions. That's why the latest Japanese gizmos aren't cute cameras or robo-pets but high-powered military surveillance technology. According to officials in Japan's Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center, the country will launch its first two spy satellites by the end of March, followed by two more later this year. Between them, these four cosmic eyes?developed at a cost of $2 billion?will be able to snap any spot on Earth...
...Breaux-led defectors to be there this time around (especially the ones Bush helped defeat this fall). On the GOP side, 2001 heretics John McCain and Lincoln Chafee are already off-board again, and Senate Finance Committee chairman Chuck Grassley is already predicting a rough and transformative Senate ride...
...official Elvis Presley Teddy Bears on sale at better chain stores, he turns it into a children's song; he could be a father crooning silky nonsense to a first-born. He lends a seductive petulance in "I don't wanna be your tiger/ 'Cause tigers play too rough." He plays with the title words as if they were Silly Putty, altering the stress and length of the vowels. It's a great, blithe performance...