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Sasha was not a normal kid. His parents told me he was a genuine child genius. Spoke three languages, did 12th-grade math, played violin and piano - if you read Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game or saw Little Man Tate, you know the type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drug Trip in the E.R. | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

...draft that the University presented last night, Harvard pledged to provide physical improvements of the neighborhood, free math and science tutoring, and conduct a survey to guide its future educational offerings for Allston residents...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allston Residents Demand Benefits | 12/11/2007 | See Source »

...staffers, all eyes are on January 3, after which most of them will pack up and move on - maybe to South Carolina, Nevada, Florida or Michigan. Right now, they're busy organizing campaign events and flushing out potential supporters; schooling themselves and voters on the intricacies of caucus math; coaxing Iowans to leave their comfy homes on a winter night to caucus in a school gym or church basement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iowa Campaign's Foot Soldiers | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...math of moviemaking enthralls Smith, who calls himself a "student of universal patterns." To hear him talk about analyzing the weekend box office with Lassiter is to see flashes of the aspiring engineer who almost attended MIT. "Every Monday morning, we sit down--'O.K., what happened this weekend, and what are the things that resemble things that have happened the last 10, 20, 30 weekends?' It is so much fun to look at something everyone's looking at to see if a different pattern comes out for you." With Legend, Smith hopes to break one of Hollywood's rigid rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legend of Will Smith | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

Smith applies the same kind of arithmetic and discipline to his personal life, and as a result, he enjoys a Hollywood rarity: a stable 10-year marriage. "Our first official date was with a relationship counselor," he says. "The math of it is simple. Start while it's good. Do it three times a week while you're laughing and still having fun. You get so much more work done. You head off problems. Do it during the ether time, and do it aggressively. There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legend of Will Smith | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

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