Word: halfing
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...first half of Disturbing the Universe is largely his scientific autobiography, the second is his somewhat disjointed account of what must have been a disjointed later career. Why should a man of such acknowledged brilliance lead his professional life thus--first working with atomic energy, then space missions; now testifying before the Supreme Court, now tutoring the Princeton prodigy who independently discovered the atomic bomb? Because, it seems, he gave up on himself as a pure theoretical physicist. "I was," writes Dyson, "and always have remained, a problem solver rather than a creator of ideas. I can not, as Bohr...
Trailing 11-0 just one minute into the second half, J.V. Coach Loyal Park sent in the starting backfield for the first time. Quarterback Burke St. John wasted no time, hitting Jellison with a 35-yard pass. The swift Jellison then turned and sped 30 yards for the touchdown. Minutes later he took the ball on a sweep and scored again from the Harvard 40. The St. John to Jellison connection carried the younger smaller squad to a 22-11 victory...
...just couldn't see going to a school where I would receive half the education and be forced to play sports," Jellison says. "What if I had hurt myself and lost a scholarship--then where would...
There are other dumps. Only a few miles away, near a barren field called the Love Canal, 240 families had to be evacuated last year when state officials found enough dioxin buried beneath their homes to kill half the earth's population. Several other industrial dumpsites in New York may also be feeding the chemical into nearby rivers; and from Maine to Arkansas to California and Oregon, dioxin has left a trail of sickness, fetal miscarriages and death wherever it has entered the environment...
This political arm-twisting has turned the EPA's regulatory efforts into, as one congressman put it, "a complete joke." Top agency officials have exempted from regulation more than half of all hazardous wastes--some tens of thousands of substances known to cause birth defects, mutations, radiation poisoning and infectious diseases. Branch chief Sanjour observes, "Whereas previously these wastes may have been disposed of inadequately and secretly, they can soon (thanks to a clean bill of health from EPA) be disposed of inadequately and openly." He concludes, "The actions taken by EPA are, quite simply, illegal...