Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Genocide: Although Wilson is not wrong in suggesting that genocide could be of selective advantage, I feel that he has misread the anthropological evidence on this point. Most of his examples of genocide come from relatively complex societies with social stratification. Unequal struggles between prestate societies seem rather rarely to have been followed by extinction of an entire breeding population or local group. Dispersal, adoption or marriage into the victorious group, or slavery seem more often to have been the fate of those defeated. In pre-state societies genocide appears likely to have been a costly strategy. Recent works...
...Author Robert Ringer considers himself to be a follower of Ayn Rand, I suggest he study her philosophy further. In The Fountainhead, Hero Howard Roark says of ruthless Newspaper Publisher Gail Wynand...
...degree in graphics and illustration, and May has done graduate work in astronomy; Taylor studied biology and Deacon won first-class honors in electronics. Behind the bizarre stagery, in fact, Queen's musicianship is solid. Mercury plays the piano with competence. Although many of his songs suggest raw aggression, a gentler side can be heard in Seaside Rendezvous, a coy confection of muted harmonies and polite French phrases that is slyly reminiscent of potted palms and '20s hotel orchestras. The new album also includes Drummer Taylor's wry valentine to his auto: I'm In Love...
Right now Essick would do anything to win, but if you were going to suggest putting a shark in the warmup pool or coloring the water Crimson, don't bother--he's already thought of it. "I put 14 bottles of red food coloring in the pool to see if it's stay red,"Essick said, "but the circulation was too good. Now everyone's probably got cancer from all that red dye number...
...discrimination cases when they feel they have been treated unfairly. But the backlog of such agencies as the MCAD, with more than 2,000 cases behind and without a dime left to conduct costly public hearings and the EEOC, with a national backlog of 21,000 cases, does not suggest they will get very quick satisfaction...