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...trait valued above all others by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, Ballmer's boss and close friend. And Gates rewarded that unswerving loyalty last week: he appointed Ballmer, 42, formerly Microsoft's chief sales guy, as president and heir apparent...
...following on the other side of the Channel by connecting him to painters in the stream of French and Belgian Symbolism: Gustave Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes, Fernand Khnopff. Burne-Jones' morbid hypersensitivity was what made him a genuinely advanced figure in Symbolist eyes, and it is the trait that is bringing him back into popularity today, now that "heroic," confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siecle...
...would seem that versatility is a trait McLaughlin has mastered. But the greatest testament to his ability to adapt to new situations is the post-Commencement job that McLaughlin has lined up for himself...
...linked to a stretch of DNA at the very tip of the X chromosome, the chromosome men inherit from their mothers. Three years later, in 1996, Hamer and his collaborators at NIH seconded an Israeli group's finding that linked a gene on chromosome 11 to the personality trait psychologists call novelty seeking. That same year Hamer's lab helped pinpoint another gene, this time on chromosome 17, that appears to play a role in regulating anxiety...
Intriguing as these findings are, other experts caution that none has been unequivocally replicated by other research teams. Why? One possibility is that, despite all of Hamer's work, the links between these genes and these particular personality traits do not, in fact, exist. There is, however, another, more tantalizing possibility. Consider the genes that give tomatoes their flavor, suggests Hamer's colleague Dr. Dennis Murphy of the National Institute of Mental Health. Even a simple trait like acidity is controlled not by a single gene but by as many as 30 that operate in concert. In the same...