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...Minute University" tenured the world's fastest talker to zip through lectures on 10 subjects key to any core curriculum. If the American mind is closed, Professor John Moschitta's curriculum will enlighten it in about as much time as it takes an automatic garage door to open and shut...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: An Academia Nut | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...finally got a winner. After two decades of losses, the Twins have finally won a place in the World Series. I tell the news straight, because every time I proudly share the news with my college friends, "We're up, two to zip," they remind me that the Celtics haven't started their season...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Proud to be a Minnesotan, Again | 10/21/1987 | See Source »

...electrons, no longer able to repel one another, are squeezed into the nuclei, which ordinarily contain just protons and neutrons. In about a thousandth of a second, the negatively charged electrons combine with positively charged protons to form additional neutrons; the process also produces the ethereal neutrinos, which effortlessly zip through the star's outer layers and into space. Under these circumstances, there is a limit to how much the neutrons can be compressed. As gravity tightens its grip further, the neutrons, in what Hans Bethe, Cornell University's Nobel laureate physicist, has called the "moment of maximum scrunch," recoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supernova! | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...Crimson power play performs with its usual zip, only Engineer goalie Gavin Armstrong (3.38 goals-against average, .889 save percentage) will be able to do anything about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icemen, RPI Face-Off | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

...risk losing that contest and barreled straight ahead to win by 1:20. The second meeting was a replay of the first: Stars & Stripes blew ahead on a gusty breeze to a 1:36 victory. But Dennis-no- longer-the-Menace did not crow. "I've been ahead two-zip before," he said, referring to his lead in Newport prior to disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dragster in The Danger Zone | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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