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...Ted W. Kilner '01 forgot his six-month anniversary with Sarah H. Gerber '02...on Valentine's Day, no less. The junior Winthrop resident spent the holiday downloading replays of the NBA All-Star Slam Dunk contest...Kelly D. Preston '00 re-gifted a rollneck sweater to her first-year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Gossip Guy! | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

At the Harlem Chess Center, which opened four months ago, it is common for grownups to get thrashed by pint-size chess prodigies. In the same tough neighborhood, the Dark Knights team at Mott Hall, a middle school for gifted students, last year won the national championship in the prestigious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harlem's Chess Kings | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

It was cute the first time around: when the President lost his head over Monica's thong undies, that is, and the evolutionary psychologists declared that he was just following the innate biological urge to, tee-hee, spread his seed. Natural selection favors the reproductively gifted, right? But the latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Natural Is Rape? | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

And being shipped off to gifted class is not unlike becoming a child star: you have your Ron Howards and Jodie Fosters, and then you have your E! True Hollywood Stories ("But the future would hold different strokes indeed for young Gary Coleman ..."). Nevertheless, actor Frankie Muniz, 14, is facing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brainiacs and Maniacs | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

Executive producer Linwood Boomer (3rd Rock from the Sun) loosely based the series on his own more prosaic experience of being labeled "gifted" and growing up in a California household of "four monstrously hungry kids who broke everything." His script charmed Fox entertainment president Doug Herzog, who committed to 13...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brainiacs and Maniacs | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

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