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(I confess: I'm a data wonk. In fact, I am eagerly awaiting the 2011 baseball season's first box score.)

Emmerson's love of the Arctic infuses his prose, effectively keeping this book from being a dry accounting of facts and figures suitable only for policy wonks.

Our public life will surely have more relevance to the lives of the electorate if we have candidates from a wider pool than the usual political wonks - candidates with a broader experience of life.

And unlike the Fab Four, neither police nor health and safety wonks could get them down - the gig being officially cleared with The Man.

Here the masters of the (blog) universe are all wonks: Eduwonkette, Eduwonk, and The Education Wonks, and two of the three are anonymous wonks, or used to be.

But wait--this turns out to be a surprisingly fun road trip, even though it's led by a pair of Beltway policy wonks. Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger join the small but growing number of nuclear tourists who, like the families that swarm Gettysburg and Antietam each summer, visit Cold War nuclear sites and get nostalgic about mutually assured destruction.

NEW YORK CITY: For a hundred years now, the Japan Society of New York has been a think tank for policy wonks, entrepreneurs, diplomats and Japanophiles.

After the 2004 elections, the Democrats decided to eschew policy wonks and political strategists and take their cues from some professionals with real populist acumen: Berkeley linguists.

For any political wonks reading, who may be venturing up to the cobbled streets of Manchester today for the Labour Party conference, keep an eye out for one Welsh MP.

ENERGY POLICY WONKS OF THE RECENT PAST ONCE fantasized of federal tax hikes driving gas prices as high as $4 or $5 a gallon.

"Don't let the policy wonks start throwing statutory and regulatory requirements at you.

More that 250 researchers, students, and policy wonks gathered in Montreal in June for the second annual NanoForum Canada.