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...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 is, it is made up of many subpopulations, which can be defined...
...advantage of a surprise attack. They had unlimited supplies-thanks to the Russians-financed by oil profits. Yet after three weeks of fighting, they were losing, and screamed for a ceasefire. This is the same type of pride demonstrated by Arab terrorists after murdering athletes, airline passengers and schoolchildren...
There is also talk of helping break the reading barrier for good, and perhaps reversing a trend that has seen the reading skills of American schoolchildren decline while reading consultants, advisers, textbooks and remedial reading courses proliferate. "A great thing about Me-Books," Me-Book Publisher Freeman Gosden Jr. told a lecture audience at the American Booksellers Association meetings this year, "is that one book can't be passed from child to child...
...elegant White House waiters passed those 800 Flamenco No. 1 cigars. All of that didn't prevent Albert and O'Neill from giving blunt assessments about the prospects for Nixon's legislative proposals, but they went back to Congress having been part of a dialogue, not schoolchildren summoned for another flipchart show by Haldeman and Ehrlichman...
...population of Atlanta is only 52% black, but 80% of its schoolchildren are black. To stem the continuing white flight to suburban schools (4,686 white elementary students left the system over the past year), the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter struck a compromise in a 15-year-old desegregation suit against the Atlanta school board that leaves over half of the city's schools virtually all-black and could become a model for other cities seeking to skirt extensive busing of schoolchildren. In return, the school board guaranteed the hiring of Atlanta's first black superintendent and other high...