Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven men and women can represent the myriad variations of the entrepreneurial spirit, of course; such choices are arbitrary. Some celebrated and familiar success stories have been omitted simply because they are so celebrated: Lee Iacocca's rescue of Chrysler, for example, or Steven Jobs' creation of the Apple Computer empire. This selection is a sampling, a sketchbook and a salute...
When Feynman asserts that we live in an unscientific age, he means there is a scarcity of rational thought about the technological forces that have shaped the modern world. He was there at the creation. His enlisted-man's version of brain-storming days at Los Alamos seizes the spirit of the place with typical zest and informality: "What (Hans) Bethe needed was someone to talk to, to push his ideas against. Well, he comes in to this little squirt in an office and starts to argue, explaining his idea. I say, 'No, no, you're crazy...
Last spring a subcommittee of the Committee on Housing began investigating creation of a bike path between Mather and the Quad, via the Yard...
Early on Christmas morning, just before the faintest glimmerings of dawn over the Pacific, a group of scientists from the U.S., West Germany and Britain will begin their holiday celebrations by monitoring a unique experiment: the creation of the first man-made comet. A satellite orbiting some 70,000 miles above earth will release four canisters containing about 90 lbs. of barium and copper powder, worth $240,000. The powder will swell into a gaseous cloud 100 miles across that will glow pale yellow-green and then a dusky purple; as it expands, the cloud will grow a comet...
...unlikely that any Canadian government could stimulate the economy much while facing a budget deficit of $26.5 billion, which is even higher than this year's U.S. deficit on a per capita basis. Finance Minister Michael Wilson calls reduction of the deficit "the key to growth and job creation" in his country. But Wilson fears that "Canadians may not fully grasp its consequences or share my concern about it." He is expected to announce deep government spending cuts in the spring...