Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donna R. D'Fini, administrative assistant in charge of the math graduate studies program, says Elkies has earned a reputation within the department as a Wunderkind--German for "wonder child." She also says that to her knowledge, no recent math graduate student has bested his two-year record for earning a math Ph.D...
...Strange Practice: Got to wonder what the Army hockey team was thinking about before Friday night's game against Harvard...
...picture through small details. He acknowledges Fossey's courage in trying to protect an endangered band of mountain gorillas; he also discovers that her love for the great apes was matched by her contempt for the Rwandan people. In the Central African Republic he encounters people who wonder why the West makes such a fuss about eating human flesh. Visiting his first AIDS clinic, he is greeted by a doctor visibly wasting away with the disease he is supposed to treat...
...wizardry? If moviegoers gain infotainment, they may be losing their innocence -- the magic tingle of walking into a big, dark theater whose pleasures are yet to be revealed. By pushing its stars and its secrets across the breakfast table, Hollywood may be hyping itself right out of the wonder business...
...various stages in his career, the President-elect has shown different faces to the world, prompting some observers to wonder just which George Bush will show up for the Inauguration: The moderate, traditional Republican who ran in 1980, or the right-tilting conservative on the stump this year? The George-the-Ripper hardballer who upset an overconfident Dole and Dukakis, or the kinder, gentler George who claims to be haunted by hungry children? The answer, of course, is a bit of each: Bush will be determined to do whatever it takes to complete the mission...