Word: experimention
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...Salkian spirit of self-experimentation, I have long applied this technique to my addictions. The first time, admittedly, the experiment was unintentional. In college I was a big coffee drinker. Working on the McGill Daily, I once stayed up all night writing and rewriting editorials (one habit of which I later purged myself with great ease), drinking cup after cup of coffee along the way. By dawn I had consumed at least a dozen and was sick as a dog. That was 25 years ago. I have not touched a cup since...
Thiessen's mentor, Dr. Marian Lewis of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, has championed his proposal and assisted the first-year in getting permission to send his experiment on the Shuttle.
While Andorsky admits that the science argument is "compelling," more compelling is the unmentioned fact that many significant scientific discoveries occur as a result of an experiment performed for an entirely different purpose. In the absence of a human scientist with the capability to adjust experimental conditions at moment's notice, experiments might have to be repeated several times to yield results, or worse, abandoned due to their excessive costliness, against which Andorsky rails. To cite a historical example, would Alexander Fleming have isolated penicillin if he had to conduct his research via an unmanned satellite? I stake my final...
When he took the brave step of entering into a self-rule agreement with Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization 16 months ago, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin promised his countrymen peace with security. Ever since, Israelis have enjoyed little peace and less security. Rabin's political stock has plummeted...
Perhaps Auschwitz is simply too monstrous for passions to cool completely; perhaps 50 years' distance is not enough. Auschwitz was by far the worst of the Nazi concentration camps, containing the bones and ashes of the estimated 1.5 million of Hitler's victims who died there--1.1 million Jews, 75...