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SPAIN To help boost enlistments, the military is lowering the IQ requirement from 90 to 70, the minimum for normal behavior according to psychologists. Applicants will also no longer need to have finished high school...
...childhood. Researchers are uncovering distinct "windows of opportunity" in which various cells in the body are most receptive to--and most in need of--particular nutrients. For example, studies suggest that a lack of iron early in life can lead to as much as a four-point drop in IQ. At the same time, there's a lot that researchers still don't know, particularly about what makes those hated vegetables so good for you and your kids...
...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 that enviable yet uncertain future eagerly. Like his character Malcolm, a spunky grade-schooler with a 165 IQ (he's Bart and Lisa Simpson), Muniz was plucked early, spotted by an agent at age 8 playing Tiny Tim onstage in A Christmas Carol. Several TV and stage roles later, the scrawny, blue-eyed Frankie, his mother Denise and his sister Cristina, 15, are moving from Woodridge...
...performance as a POW have finally permitted this to happen," according to his 1974 evaluation. McCain also tells a psychiatrist that among the benefits of his POW experience "he learned to control his temper better, to not become angry over insignificant things." Included in the records is a 1984 IQ test. His score, 133, would rank him among the most intelligent Presidents in history...
Being unable to answer that question, I am reduced to offering a personal perspective (hence the title of this piece). When I was younger I lived in fear of finding out I was not as smart as I hoped I was. SAT's and IQ tests made me very uneasy. I still become jittery when someone in the room proposes a brainteaser I haven't heard before. That is part of the reason why I chose to attend an American college known for its unwillingness to give students C's. But this plan failed because intelligence is evident only...