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...might ask, is this close encounter different from any other? Well, because Firmage, 28, is an Internet whiz kid whose consulting company, USWeb, is worth about $2 billion. And because Firmage last week published a 240-page version of his magnum opus, The Truth, on his website. And finally, because his yen for space travel hasn't yet cost him his life, but it has now cost...
...many school districts banned homework in primary school in an effort to discourage rote learning. The cold war--specifically, the launch of Sputnik in 1957--put an end to that, as lawmakers scrambled to bolster math and science education in the U.S. to counter the threat of Soviet whiz kids. Students frolicked in the late 1960s and '70s, as homework declined to near World War II levels. But fears about U.S. economic competitiveness and the publication of A Nation at Risk, the 1983 government report that focused attention on the failings of American schools, ratcheted up the pressure...
Wrong. Nothing, especially in the world of computing, is ever that simple. "It was the fault of everybody, just everybody," says Robert Bemer, the onetime IBM whiz kid who wrote much of COBOL. "If Grace Hopper and I were at fault, it was for making the language so easy that anybody could get in on the act." And anybody did, including a group of Mormons in the late '50s who wanted to enlist the newfangled machines in their massive genealogy project--clearly the kind of work that calls for thinking outside the 20th century box. Bemer obliged by inventing...
...major league life wasn't yet 60 games old. Soon he rushed past the rookie home-run record, and crowds of reporters buzzed around him like so many mosquitoes on a July night in St. Louis. Still, his mien was so benign that one of his nicknames was McGee-Whiz. In September of that year--he hadn't yet turned 24--he looked to become only the 11th man in baseball history to hit 50 home runs in a season. Going into the last day, he had 49. He also had a very pregnant wife ready to enter a California...
Windham Hill-A Winter Solstice Reunion: The only genre Windham Hill does well is the genre they invente--though to appreciate it you must have a taste for musical Cheez-Whiz. This is music for people who telecommute from their office in Western Mass. and spend all their time drinking chamomile tea while sitting on their windowseat wearing slippers and heather-grey leggings while blinking into the snowflakes. Better synthetic picks include The Manaheim Steamroller Christmas Album, and A Fresh Aire Christmas-from the guys who invented New Age and are the wellspring of all Christmas muzak. Polyester blends...