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...indicates that a lot of attention, in the form of early and constant stimulation, enhances a child's intellectual growth. According to the current scientific literature, the type and amount of stimulation needed for proper childhood development is already built into the normal life of an average baby. No whizbang tricks are necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quest For A Super Kid | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...indicates that a lot of attention, in the form of early and constant stimulation, enhances a child's intellectual growth. According to the current scientific literature, the type and amount of stimulation needed for proper childhood development is already built into the normal life of an average baby. No whizbang tricks are necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quest For A Superkid | 4/22/2001 | See Source »

...smart lad would stick with art house offerings and steer clear of the Cineplex, especially the whizbang mega-releases. But not a slow learner who adores the very idea of going to the movies and keeps thinking the next one's actually going to be worth the eight bucks. I see ads on buses; I hear the buzz; I read blurbs promising the adventure of a lifetime. They do not tell you that part of the adventure will entail leaving the theater with a bag over your head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sundance Summer | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

Every few pages, McPhee takes out his English major's rock hammer and prizes out a sample of whizbang geology lingo: plutons, grabens, horsts, gabbro, incompetent rock, punk rock, catsteps. Slickensides, if you please. Too much gong banging would become grandiose noise, however, and too much info simply another second-year geology text. McPhee, who is beguiled by his geologists and can make you see why, has a good feel for when to ease off into anecdotes. He goes after the rock wonks with butterfly net and magnifying glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romancing The Stones | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

DIED. HIDEO SHIMA, 96, a whizbang designer of Japan's 1960s bullet train, which, while not faster than a speeding bullet, still transported passengers at breakneck speeds, allowing rural folk much desired access to cities; in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 30, 1998 | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

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