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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...genius. "It makes you the one buffalo that isn't there when the Indians run the rest of them off the cliff." That, or it makes you the easiest target for sharpshooters; whoever coined the term "gifted" clearly never received a wedgie for being a brain. As the oddball sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (Fox, Sundays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.) shows, being pegged as special is more a "gift" in a Let's Make a Deal sense. Behind one door is advantage and opportunity; behind another, humiliation and alienation. (Look what it did for Anakin Skywalker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brainiacs and Maniacs | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

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