Word: smartest
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...parent wants to hear that there are five other kids in the class who are a lot smarter than his or hers. Younger teachers especially can be overwhelmed by parents who announce on the first day of school that their child is going to be the smartest in the class and on the second day that he is already bored. Veteran teachers have learned to come back with data in hand to show parents who boast that their child scored in the 99th percentile on some aptitude test that 40 other students in the class did just as well...
...subsequently spent 42 days in jail on charges of bribery, money laundering, corruption and abuse of power, all of which were eventually thrown out of court. Indeed, no evidence of any of these crimes was ever produced. "So either it just wasn't true or she's the smartest person in the world," says a source close to Yushchenko. In 1999, Tymoshenko launched her own opposition party and last year joined forces with Yushchenko's Our Ukraine. Having clawed her way back into power, does Tymoshenko have a political agenda? While Yushchenko focuses on diplomacy - last week at the World...
Some of the smartest scam artists, Minkow explains, target groups united by religion, race or ethnic origin. From 1998 to 2001, at least 80,000 people lost $2 billion in religious-investor frauds, according to the North American Securities Administrators Association, a group representing state regulators. In fact, most of the eight major frauds Minkow helped uncover in the past year have involved hustlers trying to sell investments to church groups...
...Putin seems unnerved. Appearing last Friday on TV, he looked uncharacteristically ill at ease. According to a source close to the Kremlin, Putin "restricts himself to a narrow circle of three to four close confidants." With so many angry people out on the streets, that might not be the smartest strategy...
Superstring theory, which has lately been renamed Mtheory for reasons that interest only theoretical physicists, is so dauntingly complex that the smartest scientists in the world are still trying to nail it down. But among other things, it provides for multiple universes...