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...ease the plight of the dislocated and unemployed. So what is to be done with 3 million workers in the military industry and nothing but a pinched, depleted domestic economy awaiting them? Just one more fix, is the addict's witless, blubbering solution -- one more useless, death-dealing, high-IQ...
...those boring days, the rumors can get their fullest hearing, simply because the journalists have nothing else to file. This is especially true when they confirm a story's subtext, just as the Quayle rumors confirmed that Bush's campaigning is sinking faster than the vice president's IQ scores...
Welcome to the wide-eyed world of "smart drugs." Over the past two years, a growing number of IQ-hungry Americans -- from high school students to octogenarians -- have taken to chemical means of "cognitive enhancement," downing a variety of food supplements and prescription drugs to prepare for tests, prime themselves for business meetings or just burn a little brighter at parties...
...About 10% report salaries of more than $50,000 a year. The younger patients may not fare as well. During one period in the past, victims of childhood leukemia were given prophylactic radiation treatments directed at the head. A number have suffered small but permanent reductions in IQ...
Several complex sexual differences emerged. Men with lower verbal IQs were more likely to have their language skills located toward the back of the brain. In a number of women, regardless of IQ, the naming ability was restricted to the frontal lobe. This disparity could help explain why strokes that affect the rear of the brain seem to be more devastating to men than to women...