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The chapter of The Bell Curve on policies that might be able to overcome the fate of a low IQ focuses mainly on whether early-childhood programs like Head Start (most of which aren't run with raising IQ as their primary goal) can raise IQ significantly over the long term, and sorrowfully concludes that they can't.
However, a specific role for Msn2p in the response to glucose starvation has recently been identified [ 43], raising the possibility that the factor is directly involved in regulating these genes.
From "The Inevitability of Death and Taxes Department" comes the news that some jurisdictions are raising the price on cemetery plots.
The Washington Post , Los Angeles Times , and USA Today all agree: the top story is Alan Greenspan's statement to a congressional committee that the U.S. economy is perking along so nicely that the Federal Reserve won't be raising interest rates any time real soon.
The WP reports that Clinton said yesterday that he and Vice President Gore "believed we were acting within the letter of the law" when raising funds for the '96 campaign.