Word: inferiorities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only was Einstein's inferior parietal region unusually bulky, the scientists found, but a feature called the Sylvian fissure was much smaller than average. Without this groove that normally slices through the tissue, the brain cells were packed close together, permitting more interconnections--which in principle can permit more cross-referencing of information and ideas, leading to great leaps of insight...
What they found was that while the overall size of Einstein's brain was about average, a region called the inferior parietal lobe was about 15% wider than normal. "Visuospatial cognition, mathematical thought and imagery of movement," write Witelson and her co-authors, "are strongly dependent on this region." And as it happens, Einstein's impressive insights tended to come from visual images he conjured up intuitively, then translated into the language of mathematics (the theory of special relativity, for example, was triggered by his musings on what it would be like to ride through space on a beam...
...Although the team showed character in rallying, it did so against inferior opponents. The three best teams in the league beat the Crimson in the last three weeks of the season...
...faced cops and ghastly youths of both sexes in Mickey Mouse hats are proof of that: the Mickey Mouse face, he told an interviewer, is "without character or age; for me it represents the junk-food people, the TV children, the spoilt young ones who have all their experiences, inferior as they are, handed to them on a plate." Nobody could say Steinberg was a particularly warm or approachable person. He loathed mediocrity and made no secret of it. He simply knew too much, and in his death he took that knowledge with him. He had no equals...
...those who can't, teach" has been too firmly ingrained upon the public consciousness. The sentiment has developed that those who choose to teach do so only because they could not get a better job. Current teachers fear raising salaries to attract talent would imply that they are somehow inferior and deserve to be replaced...