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...hero of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is someone even younger, smarter and less hip than Foer. Oskar Schell is a weird, compulsive, deeply nerdy 9-year-old kid who lost his father in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Oskar's many obsessions include physicist Stephen Hawking, playing the tambourine, looking for mistakes in the New York Times, and inventing things: "There are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?" And so on. When Oskar discovers...
...understood less than half of the hour-long conversation that followed—something about game theory and auctions—but I did my best to fake it. When Dave left for dinner, there were really only two things that I was completely sure of: Dave is way smarter than I am, and my parents probably agree...
...like "lost pet" and "6220"--his house number on Independence Street in Park City. But he was just showing off, a peacock fanning out its feathers. "If he wanted to get caught, he would have hung out at the crime scene," says profiler McCrary. "He just thought he was smarter than everybody else...
...Bomb is hampered by their inaction in pursuing disarmament. Even worse, the U.S.'s plan to design a new generation of nuclear arms deprives it of any moral leadership in the nuclear nonproliferation campaign. Khan's nefarious transactions made the world a more dangerous place; the development of smarter bombs by the U.S. would do the same thing. Peter Schoch Meisterschwanden, Switzerland...
...hampered by their inaction in pursuing disarmament. Even worse, the U.S.'s plan to design a new generation of nuclear arms deprives Bush's government of any moral leadership in the nuclear-nonproliferation campaign. Khan's nefarious transactions made the world a more dangerous place; the development of smarter bombs by the U.S. would do the same thing. Peter Schoch Meisterschwanden, Switzerland Who Can Defuse the U.S.? TIME reported that America is trying to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions in "Can the U.S. Defuse Iran?" [Feb. 14]. But the real question is not whether...