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...announcement that I had 17 new messages. Never mind that the vast majority of these were from people harassing me to help them redesign biological weapons for their student organizations, or from people I hadn't talked to in months forwarding me lists of the top 10 Mensa pick-up lines. Damn it, I felt loved. But alas, all that has changed. Now, a giant sucking sound is apparently echoing across Harvard's servers as a growing segment of the e-mailing population gradually logs out. The ominous silence they leave in their wake can be explained in three letters...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: God and the CS Student | 2/17/1998 | See Source »

Mercy, me! Al Gore makes Dan Quayle look like the president of Mensa! NANCY NILSSON Rockville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1998 | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...have much of an answer. But 40 minutes to the north, at the Norfolk County Jail in Dedham, Mass., Billy Youngworth did. Youngworth, 38, who as a boy took martial-arts lessons from Myles and has had a parasitic relationship with him ever since, said Myles, a member of Mensa, is endlessly interesting and charming, "but he attracts mutts." Billy being Exhibit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ART CAPER | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...same age group showed similar IQ reductions after being spanked or scolded, but not to the same extent as girls, the study found. An even worse effect was found from a lack of maternal warmth, which when combined with beatings makes your child even less likely to join Mensa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEDNESDAY: How Clever is the Rod? | 8/27/1997 | See Source »

...having trouble concentrating on the final presidential debate because I kept imagining Ross Perot watching alone in his Dallas mansion and yelling out the answer to every question the moment it was asked, like a particularly geeky member of Mensa taking in a week's worth of Jeopardy! tapes on Saturday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOULDA, WOULDA, COULDA | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

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