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...director of the NWRO, Wiley tried to revamp the welfare system, which he claimed was "designed to deliver the smallest amount of benefits to the smallest number possible...
Kangas found an unexpected variation between IQ changes in men and women: among men, those with the highest IQs as children showed the greatest increase in IQ scores as adults. But among women, those who were brightest as youngsters made the smallest gains in adulthood. Most of the female subjects were housewives or held undemanding jobs, while all of the males had stimulating careers. For this reason, Kangas attributes the male-female IQ differences to his subjects' jobs-or lack of them. Though he admits that he cannot prove it, he theorizes that performing menial tasks may not only...
...Crimson did in fact inspire the advocate in Halberstam, and after graduation he left the sheltered environment of Cambridge to take a job with the West Point, Mississippi Daily Times Leader, the smallest daily in the state. Halberstam thought the 1954 Supreme Court ruling against segregation would bring profound changes in the South, and he wanted to be part of the action. He worked in Mississippi for four years and then travelled to Tennessee, where he covered race relations for The Nashville Tennesean. Looking for a change, Halberstam left-the country to report in Vietnam for The New York Times...
...government, and quickly demonstrated a faculty for imaginative agility. Unable to install a full Cabinet until after his party caucuses this week, the new Prime Minister assumed temporary custody of 13 portfolios (including foreign affairs, which he will keep) and gave Barnard the remaining 14. As perhaps the smallest Cabinet ever in a democracy, the two men promptly engineered a series of sudden shifts in Australian policies, both foreign and domestic...
...came from practice, he argues, then musicians with the same training would not have such differing degrees of dexterity. Not even the size and shape of the hand seem to count. The first-prize winner in a recent Munich piano competition, Taiwanese Pianist Pi-hsien Chen, had the smallest hands Wagner measured...