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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bank designed to pass on the genes of geniuses. He filed a $1.25 million libel suit against the Atlanta Constitution, which had compared his ideas to Nazi genetic experiments; the jury awarded him $1 in damages. He ran for the U.S. Senate on the dysgenics platform and came in eighth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solid-State Physicist WILLIAM SHOCKLEY | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Horace Freeland Judson observed in The Eighth Day of Creation, this sort of synergy is, above all, what Rosalind Franklin lacked. Working in a largely male field in an age when women weren't allowed in the faculty coffee room, she had no one to bond with--no supportive critic whose knowledge matched her gaps, whose gaps her knowledge matched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Molecular Biologists WATSON & CRICK | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Vulnerable but consistent junior goaltender Alicia Roberts ranked seventh in the nation with a 2.01 GAA, and eighth with a .912 save percentage. She's a marathoner between the pipes, logging 1762:27 minutes in goal, more than anyone else in the country...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Final Four capsules | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

Last year, Baer organized a series ofconferences for his eighth grade English teacher.The teacher brought a group of other middle schoolteachers to Harvard for advice on broadeningjunior high school curriculums...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Four Named Truman Scholars | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

...double-digit sum I will receive for my near-victory will be more than the $10 "Poindexter" stole from me in the eighth grade...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen: More March Madness Musings | 3/23/1999 | See Source »

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