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...Nerd Award is earned by "Physics 125: Widely Applied Physics" which claims to "apply elementary physics to real things" (like women...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta and Benjamin W.hulse, S | Title: CUEmmunity Service Awards | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

Describing himself as a "hired nerd," Elia said that he works to help businesses operate more efficiently...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: Young Graduates Plant Their Roots in Cambridge | 4/16/1997 | See Source »

...Hired Nerd...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: Young Graduates Plant Their Roots in Cambridge | 4/16/1997 | See Source »

...Diego Polo Club, a movie company, and a British maker of airline parts. On Wednesday, in three neatly planned shifts, they died. The world saw Jonestown, felt Waco, and cried cult. And this time, a cult for the information age. These days, the stereotype of the computer nerd has grown a bit stale. But it is precisely that stereotype--young, intelligent, socially inept--which stencils nicely onto the classic profile of a cult victim. Yet these 39 men and women were not hacking neo-Mansonites, shaggy, reclusive stock characters out of a paranoia movie. With their matching, unisex crew cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open Window | 3/27/1997 | See Source »

Petr Taborsky doesn't fit the part of a hardened convict. Born into a Czech family that immigrated to the U.S. when he was six, he is articulate and soft-spoken, an idealistic 34-year-old science nerd who hopes someday to conduct cancer research. He is also principled and somewhat stubborn--so stubborn, in fact, that the state of Florida put him on a chain gang last year, and now holds him in a minimum-security facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLECTUAL CHAIN GANG | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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