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...With an IQ that has been tested between 53 and 60 (an IQ of 70 is considered the threshold of mental retardation), Penry reportedly spends his days drawing with crayons and looking at comic books, since he cannot read. He was removed from school before finishing the first grade by his mother, who, according to relatives and a former neighbor, habitually beat Penry on the head with a belt buckle, locked him indoors for prolonged periods and made him drink his own urine. At 12, he was sent to a state school for the mentally retarded. In a recent interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Should John Penry Die? | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...come from families with little education or money], but on the other, evaluators can interpret a teacher's comment of "hardworking and motivated" to mean "the student isn't too smart." As a public high school teacher, I admire a student who has "overcome" a less than genius-level IQ to excel through consistent, honest effort and determination. Those students have proved themselves capable of the self-discipline and drive needed to succeed in college. ELLEN JANIS Chino Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 13, 2000 | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...campaign seems like an insufferably long extension of the Clinton scandal and the partisan bickering that followed. And now, after a year of campaigning that felt like 10, Floridians are daily subjected to an assault of vapid, 30-second TV spots that seem designed to lower the national IQ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Is It Over Yet? | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...campaign seems like an insufferably long extension of the Clinton scandal and the partisan bickering that followed. And now, after a year of campaigning that felt like 10, Floridians are subjected to a daily assault of vapid 30-second TV spots that seem designed to lower the national IQ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Fatigue May Get the Most Votes | 10/28/2000 | See Source »

...prevent the Golden State prodigy from undermining the Constitution and destroying the international monetary system. In addition, his bizarre scheme of wage and price controls resulted in an unprecedented series of peacetime shortages. It is difficult to fathom such apparent ignorance of market economics from a man whose IQ scores were above the 97th percentile. In fact, to find a president of comparable mental stature, one must go all the way back to Herbert Hoover...

Author: By Steven R. Piraino, | Title: No Brain, No Headache | 10/17/2000 | See Source »

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