The Red Sox, directed by whiz-kid GM Theo Epstein and famed baseball statistician Bill James, had just won their first World Series in 86 years.

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In the case of whiz-kid pollwatcher Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com, that time was apparently 1 AM this morning, when he pushed the button on an epochal survey of fast food.

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Engineered by 20-year-old whiz kid Blake Ross , and shepherded by non-profit organization Mozilla, Firefox quickly carved out around fifteen percent of the browser market, nearly all of it at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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They both arrived at Caltech in the early 1950s--Carver the freshman whiz kid from the Sierra foothills outside of Fresno, Feynman a young professor from Cornell.

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