Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose son Travis was taken from him for three months in 1980 because the father had punished with the thwack of a ruler? Greg Dixon, a Baptist minister and head of Indiana's Moral Majority, says Trueblood was "just giving a normal whipping." Says he: "Reasonable people can detect whether it's assault and battery...
Based on press accounts of the find, Grindlay estimated that the "angular resolution" of the Infrared Astronomy Satellite--operated jointly by the U.S., Britain, and the Netherlands--was too great to accurately detect the kind of readings that the circling cloud of particles might induce...
...space shuttle will also be lofting, sometime by 1987, what some experts believe will be the first sure chance at making a visual confirmation of the existence of planets elsewhere in the universe--a large Space Telescope, which will be able to detect objects now invisible to astronomers on the ground because of the disruption caused by the earth's atmosphere...
Since 1963, the Pentagon's Vela satellites have been vigilantly circling the earth, using their electronic sensors to detect radiation from surreptitious nuclear explosions outside the U.S. Though these orbital watchdogs have identified only a few suspicious events, they have accidentally uncovered a major astronomical mystery: violent outbursts of energy, in the form of X rays and gamma rays, that are observable only above the earth's atmospheric shield. Such puzzling "highenergy transients," as scientists call them, rarely last more than ten seconds, yet they pack a wallop as great as a billion billion one-megaton H-bombs...
...Kuhl, he has extended those tests to language. The researchers showed infants two films of faces saying "ahh" and "eee," then placed between the two pictures a loudspeaker that could make either sound. The babies invariably looked toward the picture that fit the sound. "This means that babies can detect the relationship between mouth movements and the sounds they hear," says Meltzoff. "Essentially, babies are lip readers...