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...lengthy preliminary negotiations of a chemical-weapons-ban treaty at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. Month after month and year after year, U.S. and U.S.S.R. chemical-weapons specialists endlessly discussed modalities of destruction of the chemical weapons stockpiled by both superpowers. What was obvious to me as a layperson was the extreme difficulty, complexity and danger involved in destroying chemical weapons. Safe destruction could take place only in complex and specialized installations...
...himself of both in order to appear in court. Sometimes during HSS shows Kyle stands inside of a cage that he made himself and keeps in his room in Thayer. Kyle amuses himself by thinking of Tom Swifties that have internal logic but are hard for the layperson to understand...
...Harvard community willing to take any interest, because the various mental illnesses affect all of us in so many ways: victims most immediately, but also (sometimes drastically) family members, friends, employers, teachers, colleagues and even complete strangers. Please keep in mind that I write only as a layperson and patient, and that medical professionals should be promptly consulted for all diagnostic and treatment information...
Asked to explain his research to a layperson, the professor leans forward and describes his works to explain the basis of mathematical thought, the axioms from which people's understanding of mathematical theorems stem...
Gould, a world- renowned evolutionary biologist who writes monthly essays about science for the layperson in Natural History, questioned what he sees as a national aversion to scientific writing. "Why in AMerica has the notion of popular science become conflated with cheapening, adulteration, and whiz bang?" he asked...