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...probably the smartest person I've everinteracted with that closely. He always seemed tobe thinking on another level," Hu said...

Author: By India F. Landrigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Student Dead After Apparent Suicide | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Perhaps Hatch felt slighted that he didn't get any of the brownies and cookies Microsoft sent to another Senator after the hearing. No matter. It's unlikely Gates is hankering to return. The 42-year-old Harvard dropout may be the world's smartest and richest businessman, but as he learned last week, that and $1.60 get you a cup of chowder in the Rayburn cafeteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Gates Goes To Washington | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...Rivera, who was a student of Friendly's at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, told the Associated Press. "When I went into the show-bizzy aspects of the early days of my talk show, he would kind of roll his eyes and say, 'Oh, you were my smartest student. I know you've got to make money, but this is not my favorite thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fred Friendly, 1915-1998 | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...underachievers. Even our smartest students are underachievers. But, before getting too far into this vein, I should add that there may be some room for quibbling. The age of the students varied from around 16, in Russia, to 21 in Iceland, if this makes anyone feel better. Naturally the Russians scored higher than we did in all the divisions anyway, so this caveat is not all that much of a consolation...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: A Failing Grade | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...forms, they can be as deadly as any other disease known to man, more akin to Ebola than to the fevers and aches most people associate with flu. Virologists say the decision to kill all the chickens in Hong Kong--widely derided at the time--was in fact the smartest thing that could be done and that it might have prevented a more widespread disaster. "The question is," says Robert Webster, chairman of the virology department at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., and a key actor in the quiet drama played out in Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flu Hunters | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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