Word: trait
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...public school boys shared a trait with the veterans-academic success...
Your article included a list of traits that may help identify a kid at risk of committing violence. One trait was "tends to dislike popular students or those who bully others." What kind of message does that send? The lessons of Columbine still haven't been learned if greater tolerance for individuality isn't encouraged. We need to get at the root causes of anger and face the basic problems instead of treating the symptoms. RON SIRULL Pompano Beach...
...father and son. The father is reclusive, cordial, traditional and lives in the same house he bought for $13,000 in the 1960s. Richard likes junk food, can be blunt with subordinates, is building a lavish mansion and flew Whitney Houston to Hong Kong for his millennium party. (One trait the duo share is a penchant for being seen with beautiful women; Ka-shing is a widower, and Richard has never married.) When asked which businessman he admires most, Richard mentions not Dad but Sony's co-founder Akio Morita--and he makes clear that questions about his father...
...lengths says this ratio indicates how much testosterone people were exposed to in the womb, which may influence sexual orientation. Dr. Marc Breedlove, the aptly named Berkeley psychologist who's searching for the anatomical basis of sexual preference, reports that lesbians tend to have substantially shorter index fingers, a trait more common among men than women. Really short index fingers on men don't mean they're gay or straight, the study says; it means they probably have lots of older brothers...
...rarely saw them. So sanitized was the President's view that many Indians wondered whether he was too optimistic in his assessment of India's potential for progress and, by extension, for the prospect of improved Indo-U.S. relations. But Clinton has always been an optimist. What better trait for someone who wants to be a peacemaker...