European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world wednesday september 28,1994 weather on gender front by Jerome Burne London observer service London professor Richard Lynn is  Man he believes men Are cleverer than women and has just published a paper to this decidedly sexist effect.  the evidence is quite Clear said Lynn who teaches at the University of Ulster and admits he has not discussed the paper with any female colleagues. If you average out results on the three main types of in tests males in America Britain and Sweden score about four Points higher than  his starting Point is the generally accepted fact that proportionally men have slightly larger brains than women. His unconventional leap is to claim that at least 11 recent studies have found a correlation Between brain size and intelligence. Every Book for the past 50 years says there is no difference Between men s and women s intelligence but it s just not True he said. Lynn estimates that among the very brightest those with an in Over 130 there should be twice As Many men As women. That s Likely to be the reason Why men get around twice As Many firsts top academic donors proportionally at Oxford and Cambridge he said. People have been trying to explain this in terms of sexist examiners but it s because men Are  on the same basis Lynn thinks the search for a 50 50 balance of women in top jobs is misguided. Nor does he even Grant women their widely accepted superiority at verbal skills. Men Are slightly better verbally arid considerably better at spatial tasks he insisted. So How come according to Lynn has every other modern psychologist got it so wrong a for a Start Lynn argues that Many in tests cent rate on verbal and reasoning skills where the differ since Between males and females is at its smallest. In addition he maintains that psychologists have largely ignored the fact that girls mature faster than boys. Girls brains Stop growing by about 15, while boys keep expanding until about 18," he said. In other words boys May fall behind at first but eventually overtake girls. V not surprisingly Lynn s ideas have provoked Strong rejection. There is so much evidence to show that girls academic abilities Are strongly affected by the environment said a psychologist or. John Nicholson author of men and women How different Are they girls Are supposed to be weaker in maths and science but if you put them in single sex schools or give them a bit of extra teaching they become just As Good As boys. Also girls results at a Levels an University have been improving dramatically Over the past 25 years. That can t be because their Heads have been getting  or. Helen Hasty from Bath University another expert on sex differences Points out that we just Don t know what different brain size Means. It s like saying that bigger people Are stronger when they might just be fatter she said. Sexual differences Are fascinating and Subtle. But i Don t believe that we Are going to learn anything useful about them from a melange of 1950s statistics and crude victorian  distributed by Scripps Howard news service a game Warden at the Masai Mara Reserve in Southwest Kenya herds two White rhinos into the Bush monday. The animals arc part of a group brought from South Africa to help Kenya restock us once dwindling Herd. Masai Mara Kenya a ten White rhinos from South Africa began a new life in the kenyan bus monday welcomed by officials making Champagne toasts and Masai warriors singing Praise for wildlife  animals Are among a group of 20 donated by the Natal Parks Board in South Africa to help this East african nation restock its Rhinoceros Herd which was nearly wiped out by poachers in the late 1970s. The first lot arrived by air Over the weekend and Theresa Are due saturday. David Western director of the Kenya wildlife serv ice said Kenya s population of Black and White rhinos plunged from an estimated 20,000 in 1970 to fewer than 400 in 1983. A government Protection and restocking Campaign has stabilized the Herd since  kill rhinos for their horns which Are ground into powder for use As an aphrodisiac in parts of Asia and used to make Dagger handles in the Ara Bian Peninsula. Wildlife is the Backbone of Kenya s tourism Industry the country s main foreign currency earner one group of rhinos was delivered to Lake Nauru Nar tonal Park which has one of Kenya s Rhino  want to make the rhinos available to other countries and establish a new nucleus of herds from which Africa s fantastic wildlife could be restored to what it used to be said George Hughes director of the Natal Parks Board. South Africa s 5,000 White rhinos Are the largest Herdin Africa. Other rhinos went to a private ranch owned by Masai tribal association in southwestern Kenya. The association distributes the bulk of its earnings from tourism to its members who jointly own the land. The Days when the Masai killed animals indiscriminately Are gone said the association s chairman be Nonka Ole Tutu. Now we want to live with them an Benefit from  fall of communism a crime to some in East by Thomas Brey Deutsche Presse agent or Vienna Austria five years after the collapse of the soviet bloc crime is soaring in the former communist coun tries of Eastern Europe. In Bulgaria Interior minister Viktor Michelob resigned because of the burgeoning Rise in crime which he said is becoming More and More  although his resignation was rejected the situation in Bulgaria continues to cause concern. Zwetan wet nov the chief of a  anti crime movement in Sofia was shot dead in Public in August. In other sex communist countries Suchias Poland Hungary and former Yugo Slavia the situation is similar. Drug re lated crimes car thefts illegal immigration and prostitution have shot up steeply everywhere. Drugs Poland has become a major transit Point for the drug Trade be cause the traditional Balkan route is plagued by War. Narcotics from Asia latin America and the former soviet republics Are brought to Germany and Scandinavia via Poland. Some 6.6 tons of hashish seized there recently is consid ered to be Only the tip of an iceberg. In Romania Interior minister loan Tarcila complained recently about drug wave coming from Moldova to his country while in Hungary Border guard shave seized 1.540 pounds of heroin this year. Car theft in the czech Republic five times More cars Are stolen now than five years earlier in Bulgaria it four times More although car thefts in Poland were Down last year the country is known As a transit route for cars stolen in Western Europe. How Many vehicles Are stripped of identification in Poland and exported farther is unknown. Illegal immigration turkish gang that had smuggled about 1,000 people into Germany was caught i Austria this month. Some 54,000 cases of such illegal immigration were detected pyromania last year. There were 1,200 cases in Bulgari through August compared with a total of Only 437 such cases last year prostitution with an Esti mated 600 prostitutes the nine Mil stretch of Road 55 Between the German czech Border Point of Cinovec and the Northern Bohemian Border town of Eich Wald is considered the longest red Light area in Europe. About 80 percent of the prostitutes i Vienna estimated to number about 3,000 Are from Eastern Europe while Youn girls from Eastern Europe Are flooding the red Light areas of Germany. There Are up to 3,000 prostitutes in Budapest alone other crimes among the most spectacular crimes in Eastern Europe Arheart thefts. A burglary in the Budapest jewish museum last summer is consid ered the most daring crime in hungarian postwar history. In Romania an Ortho Dox priest was charged for illegally Trad ing in valuable 17th-Century icons. Even a 440-Pound Church Bell was stolen i Northern Albania. Distributed by Scripps Howard news service