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Monday, March 21, 2005

, Toward a Unified Theory of Black America
(The New York Times)
Roland G. Fryer Jr. is 27 years old and he is an assistant professor of economics at Harvard and he is black. Yes, 27 is young to be any kind of professor anywhere. But after what might charitably be called a slow start in the scholarly life, Fryer has been in a big hurry to catch up. He was in fact only 25 when he went on the job market, gaining offers from -- well, just about everywhere.

(Bruthas routinely gain notice when they can slam dunk, or spit rhymes, but we rarely see one get heralded for pure mental skill; it's not that those kind of men don't exist, that's just the way this society works. All part of the plan. Fryer is certainly being positioned as one to watch, so let's see what he comes up with, and hope some of it is concrete and actionable. We need ideas, lots of good ideas. (Registration required, or just bugmenot.) (b/w cobb))

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, Police think bus may have been driven to cocaine transactions
(SFGate.com)
A driver for San Francisco's Municipal Railway has been snared in an investigation into whether he was using his city bus as a delivery vehicle for drugs.

(The driver may walk for lack of evidence, but the next time my Muni express bus doesn't show up -- which happens often -- maybe it's because the driver had a "special delivery." )

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, X-celling Over Men
(The New York Times - Op-Ed)
The researchers learned that a whopping 15 percent - 200 to 300 - of the genes on the second X chromosome in women, thought to be submissive and inert, lolling about on an evolutionary Victorian fainting couch, are active, giving women a significant increase in gene expression over men. This means men's generalizations about women are correct, too. Women are inscrutable, changeable, crafty, idiosyncratic, a different species.

(Ah hah! (Registration required, or just bugmenot). )

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