Susan Curtiss, a linguistics graduate student from UCLA, gave her the name "Genie." "When we think about a genie, we think about a creature who emerges out of a bottle, or whatever, into society ...

Genie was born to deranged parents. Her father was extremely intolerant of loud noises and didn't want children, but he and his wife ended up having babies. Lots of them. Most of them died from ...