They are the whiz-kids in their fields, senior managers and top executives.

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That's exactly what the whiz-kids from the City College of New York, Rice University and the US Army Research Laboratory have done with a new lithium-ion battery powered by red dye extracted from madder roots.

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That's the sort of thing that Girish Wagh, one of the breakfast-meeting whiz kids, was working to foster when Kant called him in unexpectedly in December 2000.

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Idaho Falls, Idaho (CNN) -- Forget, for the moment, about computer whiz kids who download copyrighted music for free.

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Marcelo Coelho and Amit Zoran, a pair of whiz kids doing their thang over at MIT, have developed what very well may be the next major revolution in food preparation.

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It's somewhat reminiscent of Henry Ford II's famous Whiz Kids--people like Robert S. McNamara and Arjay Miller, who were brought in from the U.S. military after World War II to turn around a company then in dire shape.

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