Word: whiz
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...Friday, 5 p.m., Park Street, red line. Trains whiz by left and right. An 8.5" by 11" sign perches on a guitar case: "This performance has been modified in the following manner: It is fitted to fit this subway platform." Karl Swetland wears a yellow hat over frizzy brown hair that creeps out like Weird Al Yankovic's and a pink tie-dyed shirt reading "Red Raspberries" that compliments his acid-washed jeans perfectly. Commuters look on in wonder as the beanie babies in his guitar case stare back in equal amusement. Swetland fights for attention with the little girls...
...remote Chinese village of Shuiquan needs a teacher, but the authorities send a girl to do an adult's work. And don't expect the 13-year-old (Wei Minzhi) to be an inspirational whiz with her balky pupils. She is no brighter or more resourceful than they; she breaks and loses things. In a cynical reading of the tale, she might be a political functionary in the vast Chinese bureaucracy, fighting small battles to achieve obscure goals. That also seems the case with Zhang, director of the classics Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, who has been drifting...
Said "gee whiz" yet? Don't. Campaigning still takes place in the real world--on doorsteps, soapboxes and televisions. In a TIME/CNN poll, only 17% of adults in the survey said they use the Internet to gain access to politics. But digital democracy 2.0 is showing hints of just what politics will be like when most of America has faster hookups: town halls held in a hundred living rooms, where voters can interact with their representatives...
Cisco's principal products are routers--souped-up computers that sort the streams of information packets that whiz throughout the Internet. As it happened, routers turned out to be the indispensable heavy artillery of the digital revolution. As the Internet has grown, so too have the demands for bigger, faster, better routers. Today, Cisco manufactures gigabit routers that can handle a billion bits of information a second. Coming soon, as bandwidth requirements increase and Internet traffic doubles every 100 days--and as we consumers increasingly upload and download video, voice, music and data--Cisco will be ready with terabit (trillion...
DIED. ADAM YARMOLINSKY, 77, one of the brightest of the "Whiz Kids" brought in by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara during the Kennedy Administration, later an architect of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty programs, Harvard professor and an expert on arms control; in Washington...