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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three: Carol Barnes notes that human mental processes are controlled by melanin--that same chemical which gives Blacks their superior physical and mental abilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blacks Seek An End to Abuse | 10/28/1994 | See Source »

Five: Melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities--something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blacks Seek An End to Abuse | 10/28/1994 | See Source »

...hard not to notice that individuals have inherently unequal mental capacities. Each of us has, no doubt, encountered the full spectrum: the impossibly obtuse, the merely incompetent, the average Joe, the smart fella and the inconceivably brilliant. People object when accused of stupidity; but, few question the basic thesis that some got it and others...

Author: By Bruce L. Gottleib, | Title: The Devil in the Details | 10/25/1994 | See Source »

Another source is the Canadian professor J. Phillipe Rushton, who believes that Asians have greater than average mental powers, but smaller than average penises. Rushton has appeared at malls near his university, asking Blacks, Asians and whites. "How far can you ejaculate?" and "How long is your penis?" Rushton has been quoted in Rolling Stone as saying. "It's a trade-off: more brain or more penis. You can't have everything...

Author: By Bruce L. Gottleib, | Title: The Devil in the Details | 10/25/1994 | See Source »

Nash taught in the '50s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his career there was reportedly interrupted by bouts of mental illness. He returned to Princeton, where he became increasingly withdrawn. Eventually, the mathematics department appointed him a "visiting research collaborator," a post that has allowed the man a university press officer describes as "incredibly brilliant and eccentric" to roam his beloved campus freely for the past 25 years, using its computers whenever he likes, and occasionally its blackboards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bittersweet Honors | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

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