Word: nerd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show off the air in January, and is holding the final seven episodes until June and July, when most of its fans will be at summer camp. Don't expect much hoopla for the two-part finale, in which the newly engaged Steve Urkel, once TV's favorite nerd, is chosen to fly on the space shuttle, does a gravitational experiment that fouls up the mission and gets stranded in space--a crisis dubbed by TV news "Nerd Watch...
There's no doubt that the film played toward every nerd stereotype and town-gown conflict it possibly could. The MIT math professor who discovers Hunting's genius is your basic arrogant academic who can't believe that the boy who sweeps his classroom can also solve equations. Hunting's girlfriend, a Harvard senior headed for med school, is rich, privileged, and housed in an ivy-covered dorm which could be any of Harvard's undergraduate houses...
...chemistry. His native curiosity made him a standout, especially after he discovered that he had an intuitive sense about molecules, an ability to mentally manipulate the tiny structures faster than most people could work them on slide rules and paper. "He was by no means a nerd," recalls Janos Lanyi, his best friend and the man who ran for the border with him. Lanyi recalls days when the two would row out to the center of a country lake, fold in their oars and study science in the springtime sun. "He was very outgoing," Lanyi says. "You could always hear...
MARS PATHFINDER Live pictures from Mars. Another amazing triumph for good old American nerd...
...only one who is chauffeured around the state by his mom to the council's quarterly meetings. The icing on his cake came last spring when he won a Prudential Spirit of Community award--$1,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington. "In class I'm the nerd," says Aaron. "But when I got this award, I realized that being the nerd wasn't all that bad." --Reported by Nancy Harbert/Las Cruces...