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Jensen's studies of IQ may or may not be valid; however, TIME's allusion to the Jews as being the smartest race on earth completely contradicts basic scientific knowledge. The Jews are not a race but are one of the world's myriad religions. Indeed, Judaism includes in its numbers individuals of many different races, including black, Oriental and Caucasian...
...tender, to fit his interpretation of the play in the program notes. They hug each other a lot, hold each other's arms, "are supportive," as the psychologists say; they form pieta-like tableaux of familial affection. There's little wrong with that, and it might make a valid production of Lear someday, but all the actors--not just the nuclear family--would have to work towards realizing it, and the director would have to apply it with a consistent hand...
...Americans have difficulty understanding Mexico, they have to a certain extent a valid excuse. In response to their country's tumultuous past, wrote Poet Octavio Paz in Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexicans have erected elaborate psychological "masks" to shield themselves from a world that they "regard instinctively to be dangerous." One such mask is machismo, the image...
...June 11, 1978, and then in 13 months was certified by FAA examiners as qualified to pilot multiengine planes, fly under instrument conditions and handle jets. Insisted FAA Spokesman Fred Farrar: "The implication that somehow Munson got his license and ratings in an indecent hurry just isn't valid. This isn't too fast." As a ballplayer, Munson was able to spend much more time than most other private pilots in learning to fly. He had logged 516 hr. in the air, 303 of them as pilot in command...
...What really killed us, though, was the housebreaks," Paolillo said. He added that the two-year comparison might not be totally valid, since the blizzard that shut down the city for several weeks last year reduced the number of housebreaks. The number of robberies definitely rose, however, he said...