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INDEX

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abortion, 74, 224, 363, 387, 439, 449

Abrahms, Max, 196–7

abstract thinking, 26–7. See also Flynn effect

Abt, Thomas, 174, 175–6

academia

left-wing tilt of, 372–4, 388, 484n61

right-wing dismissal of, 374

See also university and college education

accidental deaths, 167–8, 176–90, 177, 179–80, 182, 187–9, 192, 468–9nn50,63

acts of God, 185, 187, 189, 190

Adams, Franklin Pierce, 48

Adnane, Souad, 442