Word: maths
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...problem for us." With Congress poised to pass an abortion-rights bill called the Freedom of Choice Act, that profile will remain high. The vulnerability, which Bill Clinton tried to exploit last week and which also could help Ross Perot, springs from the issue's new political math. When Roe v. Wade seemed to guarantee access to abortion, the pro-life side mustered most of the electoral passion. Though a minority in the country for decades, those adamantly opposed to abortion tended to base their ballot on that one issue more often than pro- choice partisans. Even then, abortion...
...didn't understand the pathos that lay within said math professor's nerdy pronouncement, but I guess a few hundred other first-year students did ("Yes!"). I liked calculus, too, but not enough to whip myself into a hot-and-bothered frenzy over partial differentiation...
...similar laws already on the books in 30 states, because he believes its looser registration requirements would lead to voter fraud. Less advertised but no less important is the White House's reluctance to boost voter turnout in a year when outsider Ross Perot has scrambled the Electoral College math and the throw-the-bums-out mood has reached epidemic proportion...
Hawking's choice of career was most fortunate, for himself as well as for science. Rejecting the urging of his physician father to study medicine, Hawking chose instead to concentrate on math and theoretical physics, first at Oxford and then at Cambridge. But at age 21 he developed the first symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) -- also known as Lou Gehrig's disease -- a disorder that would inevitably render him paralyzed and incapable of performing most kinds of work. As the authors note, theoretical physics was "one of the very few jobs for which his mind was the only real...
Stone has taught physics at the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology since 1976, served aschair of the Division of Physics, Math andAstronomy and currently directs the CalTech jetPropulsion Laboratory...