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...notion of yuppie couples' picking the child with the highest IQ out of the 10 or 12 possibilities they might be able to generate through, say, in vitro fertilization is not worth spending a lot of time on. Intelligence is very complex. We can't even define it. It is not at all clear to me that a $ real grasp of the genes responsible for intelligence is going to come about, certainly not during the next hundred years. Athletic ability? That's even worse. Are we talking physical strength or height or quickness, and what do those traits mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCIS COLLINS Tracking Down Killer Genes | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...Gantt called Meredith's comments "racist." Democratic National Committee chairman Ron Brown, a black, whom Meredith called on to admit whether he had ever used drugs, said through a spokeswoman that he would "submit to a drug test any day of the week if James Meredith submits to an IQ test." The latest Mason-Dixon poll shows Gantt only slightly ahead, with 46% of the vote to Helms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Ball Game | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...year in Chicago was not easy. The critics were nasty (one said she had "the IQ of a cantaloupe") and fellow reporters skeptical. "I was all too fair game," she says. "I was the first woman to anchor an evening newscast, and I was practically a college coed." A former staff member at WMAQ remembers, "She didn't know the first thing about reporting. But her on- camera presence was incredible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JANE PAULEY: Surviving Nicely, Thanks | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...Havana with a funny name. Bush pointedly ignored the protests of such close advisers as Secretary of State James Baker, leading the Washington establishment to conclude that he had "done another Quayle." Sununu was obviously brilliant: a three-term Governor of New Hampshire and former engineering professor with an IQ estimated at 180. He had been an invaluable political asset, rescuing Bush's faltering campaign by masterminding a victory in the New Hampshire primary. But he lacked any experience in the clannish world of Washington and was so relentlessly abrasive that one wag dubbed him "Morton Downey Jr. with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Bad John Sununu | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...Peninsula editor read the article on page 13 and realize that Massachusetts doesn't have centralized economic planning? Is this some kind of hidden IQ test? Do McLaughlin and McDonald really think that the piece by Bridget L. Kerrigan '92 is on par with George Orwell? Do they really think that the anonymously published Gen Ed 105 paper is "cleverly written, funny and sardonic?" ("The semicolon is the common thread that casts a shadow over their efforts to pave the way for crossing a future bridge over non-racist waters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Criticism of Peninsula | 4/10/1990 | See Source »

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