Word: methodes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Steve McQueen, fresh from the Actors Studio, got his first starring role in this 1958 TV series, and at times he must have thought Lee Strasberg would disown him. McQueen's method here was a weathered glint and a sawed-off Winchester rifle in his holster. As a bounty hunter with a stern personal code of ethics, McQueen did have something Hollywood could appreciate: star quality. The fun in this first-season DVD is watching him mix it up with other tyros--James Coburn, Warren Oates, Michael Landon--who would also soon learn how to commandeer the screen...
...Hwang's fraud?investigators ruled that his claims to have cloned human embryos and derived stem cells from them were baseless?reminded the world that the scientific method could be perverted by nationalism or the drive for publicity and glory. Not that the cynics needed reminding. A survey of 3,247 scientists published last June by the University of Minnesota and HealthPartners Research Foundation reported that up to a third of the respondents had engaged in ethically dubious practices. But thanks to the international scope of Hwang's scandal, the public's faith in science?rarely unconditional even in times...
...pedestal, science as an institution has ways to recover from its mistakes. It was a group of young Korean researchers operating on the Internet who poked the first holes in Hwang's work. Scientists by nature are relentlessly self-correcting?skepticism is at the heart of the scientific method. As the South Koreans who idolized Hwang have come to learn, blind faith has no place in the laboratory...
...Kearney said he was not surprised to hear that the online voting method was less than secure...
...weighting of the burden of proof appear suspect. From a process standpoint, without the power to conduct independent investigations on its own, the DRB was reduced to entertaining the accusations and counter-arguments from all parties in order to divine the truth about allegations. The very difficulty of this method of establishing facts is why the DRB demanded Coke’s assistance in conducting independent investigations of the Indian pesticide and Colombian labor violations in the first place. Instead of punishing Coke for its inability to appoint these independent auditors within the timeline prescribed by the board...