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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single gene determines even the most concrete aspect of my physical anatomy, say the length of my right thumb. The very notion of a gene "for" something as complex as "intelligence" lapses into absurdity. Intelligence is an array of largely independent and socially defined mental attributes, not a measure of a single something, secreted by one gene, measurable as one number and capable of arranging human diversity into one line ordered by relative mental worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Message from a Mouse | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...sank every cent you had, or maybe didn't have, into making a movie, a funny, feature-length film. Somehow, you were able to talk Teri Garr, Al Franken, Bob Balaban and Roy Scheider into acting in it. And let's say that the movie made the circuit of independent film festivals in 1998, and won a couple of Best Picture-type awards. You'd expect that one of the studios would pick up your masterpiece and distribute it, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazon Goes To the Movies | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...TriBeCa to a dingier but more spacious Brooklyn apartment without a kitchen, strictly to accommodate his vintage bikes. "I'm obsessive," he says. "My place is pretty much a garage." In May, Mike Frankovich, 25, a student and founder of the Hollywood Rat Pack scooter club, rode the entire length of U.S. Route 66 on his Vespa P200E...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scooters: Vroom of One's Own | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...certainly going to be my only full-length biography," Kaufman said. "I'm going to turn back to other things I'm interested in doing...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law Professor Kaufman Wins Scribes Book Award | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...certainly going to be my only full-length biography," Kaufman said. "I'm going to turn back to other things I'm interested in doing...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law Prof's Book Selected As Best Law Book of 1999 | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

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