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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should not surprise any open-minded scientist that what we measure as IQ might have a genetic distribution similar to that found for other traits. The real problem lies in placing value judgments on the presence or absence of a particular trait. Who can really say which human characteristics will prove most advantageous to mankind over the evolutionary scale of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1979 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...perimeter fence is protected by a 723-acre minefield and guards carrying M16s. From time to time, everyone on the base, including women and children, practice evacuation exercises- similar to fire drills on the mainland- just in case of an emergency like the 1962 missile crisis. Even so, the Americans at Guantanamo Bay have taken the flap over the Soviet brigade on Cuba with remarkable calm. One reason is that they have never seen a Soviet soldier, and they see Cuban troops only through binoculars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Good Life at Gitmo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...against "bourgeois rightists," Ye said, "the mistake was made of broadening the scope of the struggle." It was a euphemistic but clear reference to the imprisonment of more than 100,000 of Mao's opponents who were not released until after his death in 1976. Ye had a similar complaint about the 1958-60 Great Leap Forward that left China's economy in a shambles. Said Ye: "We made the mistake of making arbitrary decisions, being boastful and stirring up a 'Communist storm.' " Seated on the dais behind Ye were many officials who had fallen afoul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Second Thoughts on the Chairman | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...committees has met yet. Some will not meet until November. If the committees don't act immediately, and continue to act with persistence and force, Bowersock might as well file away his tutorial reforms with the departmental memos he has so conscientiously collected. In the file, he should include similar tutorial legisletion passed in 1924 and 1958, legislation which the Harvard Faculty brought to life with the same unanimous ardor, then disinherited with what has now become predictable indifference...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: An Untutored Faculty | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

...power lines lose half of their electricity, which permeates the environment. Studies in Sweden and the USSR have detected decreased crop yields and incidences of nausea, dulled reflexes and sterility, among other side effects, in the people in the vicinity of the lines. United States studies point to similar health hazards. On the other hand, government-contracted research done by the Bonneville Power Association (a federal corporate agency) and the Edison Electric Institute has found minimal side effects to life...

Author: By Winona Laduke, | Title: The Battle for the West | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

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