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...economy growing 3% a year for 45 years quadruples. Not bad. But an economy growing 4 points faster, at 7%, grows 21-fold! This is, very roughly, the difference in the way the Japanese and U.S. economies have expanded since 1945. And it has nothing to do with IQ scores...
...good. In a study of 217 children from eight months to three years of age who had had at least one seizure, researchers at the University of Washington and the National Institutes of Health found that children who took phenobarbital daily for up to two years had significantly lower IQ scores than those who were given a placebo. Some difference was still apparent several months after they stopped taking the drug, but it is not known whether the impact will be permanent. To make matters worse, phenobarbital was not effective in suppressing seizures...
...comparative educational backgrounds of honorees listed in Who's Who may reveal something about those admitted to Princeton, but little about the quality of the experience once there. For how do you separate out the effects of an elite university from such life-shaping factors as family background and IQ? And when do you measure alumni success -- at age 25, when young men and women may still be temporarily riding on the reputation of their colleges, or at 70, when such credentials belong to the distant past...
...only a few thousand U.S. homes are automated, but the number could rise rapidly. Some 700 smart homes are the work of Unity Systems, the Redwood City, Calif., company that boosted the IQ of McCovey's house. Unity sells Home Managers that can be geared to any climate or life-style, whether it means melting the snow off the porches of Connecticut mansions or heating hot tubs in California villas. Gail and Drew Arvay of Cupertino, Calif., rely on a Unity system to run their household while they pursue dual careers. Both of their school-age children and all their...
TECHNOLOGY: How to raise your home' s IQ...