Word: becking
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...think he’s a sure thing to get the Nobel Prize,” said Professor of Medicine William S. Beck, who has researched and published work on the Nobel Prize...
...Beck said the Nobel selection committee has ignored astrophysicists like Kirshner at the expense of other kinds of physicists in the past. Beck suggested that Kirshner could win a “make-up prize” given by the committee to right what he described as a past injustice—not giving Edwin P. Hubble the Nobel for his original theory on expansion of the universe...
...expanded on what Hubble did using the Hubble telescope,” Beck said...
...answer, thank goodness, is no. The seemingly paradoxical combination of large informal areas and walled off, elaborate master suites makes perfect sense, says Bernard Beck, a sociologist at Northwestern University. As children have become more powerful and vocal, and present, adults have a greater need to pull back. "I love my children, and I spend enormous amounts of time with them--there is no escaping them," chuckles Veronica Fowler, a mother of three, who added a new master bedroom suite next to the expanded living room. "But there is [the idea of] creating a buffer zone. I desperately want...
Today we're busily grinding away in an economy that's going nowhere, and our homes are a reflection of that. Sociologist Beck says Americans are so severely deprived of time, particularly leisure and vacation time, that they are trying to make up for it in their living quarters--and are doing a bang-up job. The master suites, the bathroom spas, the game rooms, the professional kitchens and the lobby-like great rooms are our way of turning our once humble abodes into luxury hotels. Feel free to put some chocolate on your pillow. --With reporting by Harriet Barovick...