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...that they are stupid. In fact, many victims are exceptionally bright and ambitious. Agatha Christie, Thomas Edison, Woodrow Wilson and Nelson Rockefeller were dyslectic, as are Singer Cher and Athlete-TV Pitchman Bruce Jenner. The National Institute of Dyslexia gives annual achievement awards; winners this year include Stanford Political Scientist Seymour Martin Lipset and Timothy Loose, a Tucson math teacher who learned to read when...
...child development for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon Administration, early learning has "no long-term effect on middle-class kids." Zigler caustically condemns hothousing as a yuppie phenomenon, in which parents try to transfer their own hyperambitious goals to children. Irving Sigel, distinguished research scientist at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., asks, "What happens to kids' sense of self when they're valued only for achievement?" According to Marion Blum, of the Wellesley Child Study Center, hothousing may create "very nervous, anxious children afraid of failure and risk taking...
...planning to be a scientist and chances are I'm going into the defense industry," said Ron Lovejoy, vice president of Students for a National Defense, who stood beside the missile mock-up. He said his group consists of about 15 students...
This is a juicy subject for the nation's best-known conservative writer. With considerable relish and fluent wit, Buckley stirs a plot involving the treasonous activities of Britain's leading scientist and the Soviet-bred daughter of an American journalist. The amiable Oakes frequently gets lost in the flashbacks and Kremlinology, but that is to be expected. Buckley's bad guys always get more attention than his good guys...
...dust surrounding the nucleus, as a fuzzy, violet-fringed, blue-green ball with a yellow center. But in images that Vega 1 shot when only 5,600 miles from Halley's, a dark red area with rather distinct boundaries appeared near the center of the image, and scientists crowded close to the television screens. "How big is that area?" asked one. "Three or four kilometers (between 1.9 and 2.5 miles)," said a Soviet scientist. "Evidently, it is the nucleus." His announcement drew a burst of applause. Though some scientists speculated that another dark area near the center might...