Word: trait
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Your sexiest physical trait: My eyes...
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...being identified anytime soon. Behavioral genetics has uncovered a paradox. Studies that measure similarities among twins and adoptees reliably show strong effects of sharing a large group of genes. The outcome is so reliable that behavioral geneticists now speak of the First Law of their field: that all behavioral traits are partly heritable. But studies that try to isolate a single gene for a behavioral trait have been fickle; many of putative genes-for-X have not held up in replications. Genes must exert their effects by acting together in complex combinations. A rough analogy: a computer program can have...
That Reston was genuinely liked, rather than resented, was due in part to another organizational trait: his eye for and generosity to new talent. He helped bring to the Times a stunning array of young journalists: Russell Baker, Tom Wicker, David Halberstam, Max Frankel and Anthony Lewis. His proteges, Stacks says, retained a purer affection for him than did his sons, for whom his work left less time...