This, precisely, has been the invidious thesis of all racist books on intelligence differences between whites and blacks. How nonsensical this thesis is can perhaps best be illustrated by an example. All six finalists ofthe ioo-meter dash in the last Olympics were black. Does this provethat...
havebeenthesubjectofconsiderabledebateintheneuropsychologicalliterature.Thisdebatestemsfromthefactthat,acrossanumberofpapers,similarpatternsofdeficitshavebeenreportedindisparatepatientgroups.Forexample,pooracuityonatimediscrimina-tiontaskhasbeenreportedinpatientswithlesionsofthecere-bellum(IvryandKeele,1989;Nichellie...
Her example started me on the trek. In addition, I take pride in knowing that Dr. "Cleo" was the sister of Dr. Hector Garcia, founder of the American GI Forum. That they were distant relatives is the wonder and joy of family history research. Mimi...
To the editor:At this point, I don’t know whether to cry or to throw my coffee cup at the wall. (“Despite some progress, state’s high-speed rail is $100 billion short and many years from reality,” March 21.) The only part of the article that made me laugh was the comment...
at school events and volunteer opportunities, which only increases my patient load because I am known in my community thanks to parental participation. In another sense, this gig requires superior creativity—creating a school room in my practice, for example, for “virtual school” during Covid....
Although the right to education is recognized here, not all children have a good one. For example, students at rural schools don’t have as many learning opportunities as students at a school such as IST. When I visited a school in Bagamoyo, students told me that they only learn math, ...
To the editor:The Supreme Court decision on Trump’s immunity is a classic example of the old adage about being careful about what you ask for — you may not like the answer. Had Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, Fani Willis and Alvin Bragg not been so eager to prosecute Trump for...
Which getResource() strategy should you use with an obfuscator? How do you use CachedRowSet with multiusers? Can you declare a type-safe collection in C#? JavaWorld authors answer these questions and more in this month's Letters to the Editor.
I knowpeople who havegiven money tosomeone beggingin the street onlyto see the sameperson in asmart nightclubin the evening.There are oftenpeople on thestreet withcollecting tinswho are really collecting fora particular charity that isa worthwhile cause, cancerresearch, for example. Butisn't it ...
Any normal child placed in a new linguistic environment, forexample because the family has moved to another country, willfairly soon learn to respond to the new sounds around it in thesame way it learnt to speak in its first language. ('First' heremust be taken in the chronological sense....