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Insurance officials wonder. They portray trial lawyers as hired gunslingers who play on jurors' emotions to win unreasonable awards. The lawyers meanwhile paint insurance companies as profit-hungry and indifferent to the welfare of victims. Says Duane Gingerich of The Research Group Inc., a national legal analysis firm: "The enmity between insurers and trial lawyers is deteriorating into trench warfare...
...least one scientist has come to Ptolemy's defense. Astronomer and Science Historian Owen Gingerich of Harvard admits that the Syntaxis contains "some remarkably fishy numbers." But he is convinced that any deception was honestly motivated, and that Ptolemy, like many a modern-day scientist, merely chose to publish the data that best supported his theories. These ideas are outdated anyway. Ptolemy's theories were all aimed at proving that the earth was the center of the universe. By 1543 Copernicus had proved Ptolemy wrong...
...source in the Udall campaign said yesterday that Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government, and Owen J. Gingerich, Professor of Astronomy and the History of Science, contributed money to that organization...
Neither Neustadt nor Gingerich could be reached for comment yesterday...
...Owen J. Gingerich, professor of Astronomy, who seconded the 1969 legislation, said yesterday he feels it was not meant to include non-credit courses...