Re: Feds eye control of vitamins, supplements - even water!

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:05:10 -0700, Islander <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:02:02 -0400, "Evelyn Ruut"
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:01:38 -0700, El Castor <NotAnyone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:16:20 -0400, Oldie69@xxxxxxxxx (Olly Mensch)
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NoName - how did you manage to be lucky enough to have a pharmacist for
a son??!! I should only be so lucky. Mine have gone into other fields,
not nearly as beneficial to me as yours - but, I presume, bneneficial to
them!!! One of the two is a psychologist - which is very nice, but I
would "benefit' far more were he a pharmacist. Our only consultations
are that he claims my glass is always half empty, when really it is half
full! For that aqdvice, we had to pay all that tuition!!!!! What does
he know about my glasses...:-)
Olly
To balance out the pharmacist, I have a daughter who is a
shrink. However, she refrains from commenting on my mental
health:) Nor do I ask for a consultation. Frankly, I don't
think my many little foibles interest her as much as her
patients with exotic problems.

My pharmacist son's wife is also a pharmacist who has worked
as a Merck representative for years specializing in cardiac
drugs. They are both a great resource in all things of a
medical nature.
They obviously inherited their brains from you -- further proof that
Herrnstein and Murray were right, after all. (-8
I would no more be able to the math and science courses they had
to do well in than fly to the moon. Having had eight children I
don't see any particular facet of intelligence being passed on in
a piece. I have one son who has a photographic memory, something
I totally lack. He remembers everything he ever read and is a virtual
encylopedia of information. And all my kids have musical ability of
which I have none. In that case, their father did have it.

I'm not saying what is called intelligence is not inherited but every
person has a latent gene pool, don't they? With a range of
intelligence among those in their family tree? I am a believer
in different kinds of intelligence.

I have a grandson adopted from a family in Colombia which was dirt
poor and virtual peons. This boy was recognized in first grade
as a gifted child and has fulfilled that promise as he is in his
teen years. He had been found by authorities in his crib along
with feces and spent the first two years of his life in an
orphanage. Once in the U.S. surrounded by children's books and
doting parents he blossomed. The first time I met him he
patted the sofa cushion next to him and waved a book he wanted
me to read to him.

Oh Rita, what a beautiful story!
Nothing inspires me so much as hearing such a thing.
You are blessed to have that boy in your family and he is blessed to be in
yours.

The book, by the way, was The Cat and the Hat, by Dr. Seuss,
in an edition written both in English and Spanish. I read it
to him in both languages.

My grandson was one of 200 kids in the sixth grade in New
York City who through a citywide competitive exam was
chosen to attend the prestigious Hunter High School there
which he entered in 7th grade and which will give him a
ticket to about any college he chooses to attend. A
granddaughter some years earlier also was selected for
Hunter. That seemed like a remarkable thing -- two kids,
not related by blood, but still in the same family.

Definitely a "nurture" argument! Kids can be amazing when they are
fortunate enough to have a caring family.

In my view, a combination of nurture and nature. While it is
true that this 2 year old flourished when he acquired parents
who adored him, his intelligence certainly had hereditary
elements.

On the other hand, had he grown up in the tiny village in
Colombia living in poverty and near squalor, he never would
have been the lad he is today.

I don't question that intelligence can be inherited -- but it
hardly the factor that determines life chances.

My daughter and s-i=l did recognize quickly what a unique
child they had. My daughter was on a search for a scholarship
to a private school for him when the city exams for Hunter
High School made that not necessary.

I think the lesson is that perhaps millions of children
worldwide do have his potential but not the means to
fulfill it. You cannot judge what people might become
if they only had the opportunity for a level playing
field.


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