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Every few months doctors from medical research centers seem to announce another major breakthrough in the search to cure AIDS. Standing before a group of anxious reporters, the doctors explain in layman's terms the genetic and protein makeup of the AIDS virus which has the popular reputation as one of the deadliest diseases known...
Skinner said the Education Department'spublishing "What Works" would be similar to theDefense Department's publishing a layman's book onhow to fight battles. His analogy provokedlaughter from the audience...
...falls through the air with the greatest of ease. "You know you're falling," says Diver Greg Louganis, 25, however much the layman thinks it looks like flying. "It should look effortless," observes Louganis. "The 'poetic' suggestiveness comes only from strength and how strong the jump is." If that sounds like a dancer talking, it is -- in an interview in the current issue of Ballet Review. Diving and dance "complement each other," says the Olympic gold medalist. "The same type of muscles are involved." Lately he has also been concentrating on starting a new career as an actor...
...that spirit, the convention followed up its election of Stanley by voting in Moore as first vice president of the S.B.C. It was a pointed gesture of compromise. Moore's principal rival was Incumbent Zig Ziglar, a layman who has spent the past year assailing "liberal" professors. The Dallas meeting also chose an extraordinary 22-member "peace committee" to hash out internecine differences...
Revolutions in Science is a book readily comprehensible to the layman Cohen has synthesized complicated scientific concepts such as quantum theory and Cartesian metaphysics, making them not only palatable but engaging. Revolutions in Science does not offer a revolution in itself. Yet Cohen's superb scholarship, his eloquent synthesis of hundreds of year of critical thought fits Alexander Pope's perception of wit; his book contains ideas "which have often been thought but never before been so well expressed...