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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilians and wounding nine others. For years, Israel and Jordan had observed an unwritten truce in the Aqaba-Elath area, largely because both ports are so conspicuously vulnerable to retaliation. With a few rockets, the fedayeen severely bent that agreement. Further attacks on Elath would almost certainly provoke full-scale Israeli retaliation on Aqaba, Jordan's only access...
...months before DeBakey did. DeBakey's associates also expressed concern about the purely experimental status of artificial hearts. The Baylor heart was reportedly tested in calves at least four times. The animals died on the operating table or shortly after the implantation. One survived for three days. Large-scale damage to the blood cells-one of the chief obstacles to the use of artificial hearts*-was cited as a contributing factor in the calves' deaths. Medical authorities, however, carefully refused to speculate whether any damage might have been done to Karp by similar "traumatization" of his blood cells...
...human is born with a hereditary capacity to be bright, stupid or anything in between. His starting position on the intelligence scale is predetermined-a biological sentence, like the one that orders tigers to give birth to tiger cubs and the human female to produce human babies. But nothing prevents a normal man from enriching his intellectual birthright, if it is allowed to mature in a hospitable environment. The obverse is equally true. Potential geniuses, deprived of suitable stimulation, will never fulfill their endowment...
...called intelligence test. He defines intelligence, somewhat circularly, as "what intelligence tests measure." In education, he says, what they measure is the subject's adaptability to a system that stresses cognition-the ability to reason-and that is designed for normal, middle-class white children. On this contrived scale, the American black typically registers below the American white-on the average, about 15 IQ points. This information is not very new. Moreover, its insight into the relative intelligence of black and white is inconclusive and limited, as Jensen himself admits. Jensen also allows for the elevating effect...
...last turn on the ramp at the Guggenheim, lined with proud "Zigs" and sprightly "Arcs," Wright's giant skylights loom close above the sculpture, filtering wan daylight through and crushing the mighty works down to an almost puny human scale. But if the ambience seems bleak, it is also strangely appropriate, for Smith's last works were conceived and built in desolation. His second wife had left him in the isolated mountain house, taking with her their two daughters. Visitors, though they revelled in the gourmet meals that the sculptor cooked and joined in the monumental drinking bouts...