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...first heard of Drew Hansen when I was a sophomore in high school. I was a mere novice debater in the podunk town of Puyallup, Wash., but Drew was a big-city whiz tearing up the local championship debate circuit from up north. Everyone knew who Drew was -- the fastest mouth in the Northwest...
...Computer Whiz...
...Aspin, the one-time Pentagon "whiz kid" who returned to oversee the downsizing of the military as President Clinton's first Defense secretary, died Sunday night after suffering a massive stroke.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonremembers Aspin as gifted and idiosyncratic -- a "perfect idea man" who flourished during a long and controversial tenure as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. But as Defense secretary, Aspin's utter absorption in minutiae and his rumpled, professorial style did him in. "He was consumed by his work, and it ultimately proved his downfall," Thompson says. "He was not a manager, and that...
...good that Chem 17 students no longer have to struggle with a lab that is designed for the more advanced Chem 30 whiz-kids. But it would be better if the Chem 17 lab--a waste of five hours watching liquids drip or evaporate--were completely overhauled so that it required some intellectual activity from those students performing...
...Disneyfied in two important ways. One is that its shows have the Good-Lord-what-next? suspense of a Disney World thrill ride. Or as Tom Bruny, the MGM Grand's director of advertising, explains the challenge of creating EFX: "We knew we had to produce a 'gee whiz' show, but we didn't want it to be just a 'gee whiz' show...