1
With a tip of the hat to Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger and their delightful book
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman’s World
(London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999).
2
The term “neurometric” is closely identified with John, who has devised both the Neurometric Battery, a comprehensive system for analyzing brain functions, and the Neurometric Analyzer, a patented instrument for making use of the Battery; but John had nothing to do with Neurometrics, Inc. He describes the Battery in
Neurometric Evaluation of Brain Function in Normal and Learning Disabled Children
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989).
3
Recounted by the British prison psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple in the magazine
City Journal.
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“Ambush at Fort Bragg” first appeared in
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Wolfe, Tom.
Hooking up / Tom Wolfe. p. cm.
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