Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blunt, no-nonsense West Point graduate has remained aloof and silent since the scandal broke last November. But beginning Tuesday, when he appears as the joint congressional committee's opening witness, the mysterious Secord may become a household name and perhaps the first man to piece together the complex puzzle of Iranscam...
...scientists may already have a partial answer: they announced last week that the new compounds can be "spray-painted" onto complex forms, where they solidify. Says IBM Scientist Jerome Cuomo, who described the technique at the American Ceramic Society conference in Pittsburgh: "This opens the door wider than ever to the fabrication of useful objects made of superconducting materials...
Novelist Andre Brink (Knowledge of the Night), some of whose work has been banned in South Africa, agrees: "If faced with the ultimate choice between sharing and going under, the Masada complex need not prevail. There is still a chance -- small and diminishing rapidly -- of entering into the kind of dialectic with the present which may open up the future." Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was leader of the official opposition, the Progressive Federal Party, until he resigned in disgust last year, so his criticisms are hardly new. But he is also a former professor of sociology and thus well tuned...
Davis claims that laymen tend to exaggerate the power, and hence the potential danger, of genetic engineering, particularly when it is applied to animals. "While we can change DNA at will in the test tube, we can't change the animals," he says, simply because their genetics is so complex. Consequently, Davis concludes, "we won't be making creatures with four legs and wings...
...beginning to see the consequences of the fact that our major universities have become very large and complex businesses," Rosenzweig wrote in a newsletter this month...