Word: constructible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interpretation of reality is a construction that depends on the nature of the institutions that have social sanction to construct and validate what we perceive as real. In our own Western tradition, these have been the church, the state, and more recently the sciences. At present, the sciences are the chief generators and certifiers of reality...
...longtime Yale chemistry professor whose work on heat transfer, now known as the fourth law of thermodynamics, won him the 1968 Nobel Prize; of a heart attack; in Coral Gables, Fla. Before World War II, Onsager proposed a gaseous diffusion process to produce the rare uranium isotope needed to construct the atomic bomb; it js now the standard method used to manufacture uranium...
...University plans to construct a new $10-12 million science building to house the Biochemistry Department, administrators said last week...
...project, it has cost him $2,250,000-raised by selling off his drawings and project studies to European collectors. A sixth of that sum went on fees to a battery of lawyers who, through 17 public hearings and three sessions of the California Supreme Court, won permission to construct the fence and defended it against suits brought by worried environmentalists, who derisively called it "a roll of toilet paper." There were bomb threats, and rigging trucks were vandalized. "If they tear it down immediately afterward, that's all right," declared the unfazed Christo. "That's all part...
...until a few weeks ago only the University's scientists and administrators were involved in the decision to construct the special containment facility that the federal government stipulates for this kind of research. But now because some scientists at Harvard and other institutions are wary of the potential dangers of this biohazard, particularly the dangers it could inflict on Cambridge, the final decision about the construction of the facility was reserved for the Cambridge City Council. After several weeks of debate, the council voted last week to place a three-month moratorium on recombinant DNA research while a special review...