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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...boosts his ego by withholding important information from you? Or maybe you work with someone who is so fearful of argument or criticism that problems go unsolved because she won't discuss them. And then there's that guy down the hall who's constantly annoying everybody with his dumb practical jokes and loud banter. As the recession sends stress levels into the stratosphere, does your colleagues' weird behavior seem to be getting worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Your Co-Workers Act like Children | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...work on his signature catchphrase, “You just got (chemical) burned!”Adam Cohen: He’s “Assistant Professor of Chemistry AND Chemical Biology AND of Physics.” We’d like to tell you a parable, A-dumb, about a little boy who wore too many hats. He wore a fez, a sombrero, and a beret. No one liked him because he just couldn’t choose one hat, and insisted on always wearing all three, despite the fact that doing so was cumbersome and ostentatious. Soon...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Hotshots? More Like Waterboys | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...thing to remember about smart people is how dumb they can be. Thousands, maybe millions, of IQ points went into creating a market for magical mortgage bonds that could only go up in value. Whoops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fixing Government, Beware of the Brainiacs | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...many czars and task forces, he should remember that no amount of IQ can cure the human condition. Like Republicans, Democrats are prone to overemphasize their favorite facts and theories, to gloss over contradictory data, to skew their analysis to match their values. That doesn't make them dumb people or bad people. It just makes them people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fixing Government, Beware of the Brainiacs | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...didn't lose because she doesn't believe in gay marriage. She lost because she's a dumb b____.' Gossip blogger and Miss USA judge PEREZ HILTON, ranting online about Miss California, Carrie Prejean, who claims she "lost the crown" because of her response to Hilton's question during the pageant about gay marriage; Prejean said only a man and a woman should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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