Many trends are localized either taxonomically or in time, and there is no evidence to support popular conceptions of evolution as an inexorable march in any direction, be it toward larger size, greater complexity, heightened intelligence, or any other trait.
Recently captured Al Qaeda photographs of U.S. railroad engines, cars and crossings heightens the intelligence community's concern of this threat".
The state of alert was heightened after intelligence agencies penetrated the Qaeda network in Yemen a few weeks ago and captured a bomb designed to be hidden in a person's clothing.
The subjects who had read literary fiction either reported heightened emotional intelligence or demonstrated, in the various tests administered to them, that their empathy levels had soared beyond their popular- and non-fiction-reading counterparts.
Musicians, singers, composers and dancers may show heightened musical intelligences.
"Dianetics" also promises heightened powers of intelligence and perception.
Instead we use intelligence (heightened knowledge of how cancer works) to track that man, then send in an elite team to stop him and only him (targeted therapy).
It said: "The immediate reaction of the civilised world must be: collective courage in the face of such outrage; heightened vigilance and intelligence sharing; a targeted military response; and international solidarity with the French people".
Turkey's worries about vulnerability to Syrian missiles, including Scuds that might be tipped with chemical weapons, were heightened recently by intelligence reports that Syrian troops had mixed small amounts of precursor chemicals for sarin, a deadly nerve gas, at one or two storage sites, and loaded them into artillery shells and airplane bombs.
Because I believe it will make them more accommodating of other people, more in tune with others' wants and needs and, ultimately, it will give them a heightened level of emotional intelligence.
