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Girls who suffer from the rare genetic disorder known as Turner's syndrome are a little shorter than average, have a thicker neck and usually can't have children. Otherwise, there's nothing especially striking about them--except that often they're socially inept. They butt into conversations. They misread facial expressions, tones of voice, body language. They're insensitive to others' feelings...
They act, in other words, a lot like boys. Why this should be has eluded science for decades. The answer, it turns out, may be in their genes, according to a report in the current issue of Nature. Turner's girls--and boys of all sorts--may get their social ineptitude from, astonishingly, their mother. Even more surprising is the implication that normal girls inherit their poise--and perhaps even their famous intuition--from their father...
McVeigh has evidently agreed to Jones' effort to win him a life sentence, but if he were true to his beliefs, he should welcome the hangman (or hypodermic man). For years, the book he has cherished is The Turner Diaries, a fictional account of an uprising by a courageous band of white supremacists. Earl Turner, the hero, does not flinch at the idea of dying for his cause. Indeed, in the book's final pages he joyfully embraces this fate. "Brothers!" he says, addressing an elite group called the Order. "When I entered your ranks for the first time...
While Qubilah tried to make it in Texas, her son stayed with his grandmother in New York. But in December, Qubilah married Theo Turner, who once served time for burglary. Soon after, Malcolm traveled west to join them. At Redeemer Lutheran School, where he entered eighth grade, teachers say he made friends easily. "He didn't wear a big X on his T shirt," says principal Randy Harrison. "He was just Malcolm." He seemed to like his new stepfather, who would come to watch him play basketball...
That may have made it all the more painful for him when his mother's new marriage began dissolving almost immediately. A few weeks after the marriage was annulled, Turner was arrested in connection with a complaint filed by Qubilah in which she claimed he had pushed her out of a car during an argument. Soon after, police were called again when Qubilah reported that her son had attacked her. When the officers arrived, Malcolm told them he was angry about her drinking. She insisted that her son was schizophrenic but had not taken his medication in two years. Police...