Word: beene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Eagles, one of America's top-selling acts (their last album, 1976's Hotel California, sold 12 million copies worldwide), have been popular favorites even as they have endured some tough drubbing from the critics. The group, particularly Co-Writers Don Henley and Glenn Frey, have been...
Last week the phones jangled for nine more winners, who, following the medicine award announced the previous week -to Allan Cormack, 55 (U.S.), and Godfrey Hounsfield, 60 (British)-completed this year's prize slate of eleven. The 1979 list of winners is notable for several reasons. For once, the...
Indeed, at a time when the U.S. is beset with economic woes, an energy crisis, weak leadership and growing self-doubt, Americans can take unalloyed pride in the honors that have been bestowed on its men and women of science. Since 1946, 100 U.S. citizens have won Nobels in the...
Paradoxically, America's lack of longstanding intellectual traditions-in fact, its strain of anti-intellectualism-may also have helped the cause of science. The best minds have not been overburdened with required studies that are remote from their interests. Sir George Porter, a British chemist who won a Nobel...
Large segments of the public also seem to be changing their attitude toward science. During the turbulent 1960s, the stress on "relevant" studies convinced many students that helping others now was more important than grueling research that might benefit mankind later, a decision no doubt reinforced by the fact that...