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...Space Studies; and Princeton's Gerard O'Neill, 53, the leading apostle of space colonization. There is also the British physician Jonathan Miller, whose medical series The Body in Question is running on PBS and is the basis of a current book. Most prolific of all is Isaac Asimov, 60 (with 218 books to his credit at last count), a chemistry Ph.D. and onetime medical-school instructor...
Eventually, the awe of science overcame the indifference toward it. As Lewis Thomas explains, "The more that is learned about nature, particularly the puzzling aspects?the queernesses being uncovered by the physicists, for example?the more engrossing it becomes." Adds Asimov: "We feel that if we do not understand science and the changes science makes possible, we may find ourselves overwhelmed...
...STILL FELT by Isaac Asimov Doubleday; 828 pages...
...prolific professor has produced more than 200 books, as well as a feast of science-fiction stories, articles, essays and verse. Yet according to Isaac Asimov, the repast is prologue. For many of the author's previous works have been written to earn a living; the latest, his 216th, is a labor of love. Its subject: the author's favorite, Isaac Asimov. Heavy enough to produce bursitis and double the price of standard scifi, the second installment of Asimov's autobiography appears formidable. It turns out to be even more entertaining than Volume I, In Memory...
...Friese '79, token: Rams, 23-2 President Jimmy Carter, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., former Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty, Isaac Asimov, Gale Sayers, Norman Mailer '43. Ronald Reagan and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) could not be reached for comment...