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However, the ease with which The Bell Curve assumes this guise may be as sobering as the book itself.
With the papers relentlessly rah-rahing over the latest exploits of the home team, often, amazingly, on the front page, it's sobering to take in the NYT op-ed on the rampant criminality of professional football players.
But it concluded that "the sobering fact remains that Africans today are poorer than they were" when Montgomery unveiled his plan.
Alan Zelicoff, a scientist at the Federal Center of National Security and Arms Control at Sandia National Laboratories, takes a harder line: "It is a sobering, not so reassuring demonstration of the inadequacies of the U.S. detection network for emerging diseases."
King's book is rich in horrors: The photographs in which faces have been blotted out with ink smears or hysterically attacked with a pen are more immediately alarming than the ones from which figures have been surgically removed, and there are sobering unretouched group shots of NKVD bureaucrats and the prosecution staff of the Supreme Soviet, mass murderers who invariably look like factory hands or math teachers.