Word: majored
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...considered less -- far less -- than rigorous. "Every great discovery has had plenty of skeptics," notes Richard Muller, a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, "but I can't find any great discovery of the past 50 years that was published with a bad paper. If a freshman physics or chemistry major had done it, they would have flunked." Says Robert G. Sachs, former director of ! Argonne National Laboratory: "It doesn't meet the kind of standards you'd want to meet for nuclear physics. It doesn't even meet the standards of testing in inorganic chemistry. It's a shame. They...
...launching a bold venture. Following 16 years of ecumenical talks, the two church leaders inaugurated a second round of negotiations to examine whether Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism could come to recognize each other's priests and bishops. Such recognition would end 4 1/2 centuries of separation between two major wings of Christianity and pave the way for reunion...
...from 1985. They spent $15.6 billion on equipment, clothes, fees, lessons and resort travel, with the average duffer shelling out $675 each year. Industry analysts predict that annual sales will double by the end of the next decade. The sport supports no fewer than four major magazines: Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, Golf World and the phenomenally successful Golf Illustrated, whose circulation has increased from 35,000 to 400,000 since 1985. "Golf," says Jay Mottola, executive director of the Metropolitan Golf Association, "is the In thing...
...plenum was the first major meeting since the March elections for the new Congress of People's Deputies, which holds its inaugural session on May 25. The strong showing by reformist candidates gave Gorbachev the proof he needed to persuade skeptical party functionaries that the solution to the country's economic woes lies in accelerating reforms, not braking them. "The elections unequivocally said yes to perestroika," Gorbachev told the plenum. Added he: "We should have enough courage and ability to pursue consistently the line we have marked out under difficult conditions...
...Senegalese media, the deaths ignited long-smoldering ethnic and social tensions between the black Senegalese and the Mauritanian Moors. More than 200 died when civilians from both countries attacked one another in border towns as well as in Senegal's capital, Dakar, and in Mauritania's two major cities. Each country used its army to restore order...