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...sulked through grade school, his parents suspected that he might be unhappy because he was so much brighter than his peers. In those years "he was a discipline problem," admits Robert Rippey, a retired math teacher at Evergreen Park High School who remembers Ted fondly as one of his brightest students. "He drove his teachers up the wall. So in high school we had to figure something out." What his parents and school officials arrived at was the accelerated curriculum that allowed him to skip his junior year of high school and shot him to Harvard...
...WORD KOHOUTEK, AND MOST astronomers wince. Back in 1973 there were predictions that the comet of that name might be the brightest of the century. It turned out to be a total dud. Halley's comet was just as heavily overhyped 12 years later; that time around, at least, history's most celebrated comet was dim and unimpressive...
...touch of comet fever. They have commandeered the world's most powerful telescopes, including the high-flying Hubble, to plumb the secrets of one of the most ancient objects orbiting the sun. Says Daniel Green, an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts: "It's the brightest one since 1976, and we're dropping everything to study...
Well, if you have to ask, it's because the rich are back to being different. Following a brief, unsatisfying fling with modesty in the early 1990s, they've renewed their lust for luxe and are making upscale stores the brightest spot on the dowdy U.S. retail scene...
...Avnet's brightest idea is to call on Stockard Channing, ace resuscitator of mediocre films (see her work in Smoke and To Wong Foo), who arrives mid-movie to perk things up. She's a local anchor who oozes compassion but, off-air, is so cool and hard you could skate on her. She meets Tally for a drink, asks, "Is that actually a banana daiquiri?" and acidly adds, "Spring Break, Lauderdale...