Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monica Lewinsky, a decent if politically unsophisticated young woman. She is not one of the people who hurt the country. Her only real "crime" was to insist on controlling her own sex life. Ordinarily, I would be critical of a newsmagazine's neglecting major news issues to spotlight a minor celebrity. But I am happy you gave Monica a chance to defend herself. Perhaps her book profits will compensate in part for all the harm the government has unjustly caused her. DOMINICK FALZONE Los Angeles...
DIED. CAL RIPKEN SR., 63, sharp-tongued veteran baseball manager and the only coach to have managed two of his sons, Cal Jr. and Billy, on the same team; of lung cancer; in Aberdeen, Md. Ripken spent 36 years with the Baltimore Orioles in both the minor and major leagues. "There are two things I always say you have to do in baseball," he said. "Adjust and readjust...
...what was probably the final straw, he decided the entire laboratory staff should undergo polygraph tests to determine who was responsible for a minor injury experienced by one of the office workers. While the group was making real progress in developing the technology needed to produce silicon transistors, Shockley's management style proved an increasing burden...
...world. And since the odds of a microbiologist's becoming even a little bit famous are a lot worse than 5,000 to 1, it was perhaps inevitable that this hero's achievements would immediately be disputed. In a scientific field so heavily manned, findings routinely crisscross and even minor discoveries can leave a trail of claims and counterclaims, not to mention envy and acrimony, that are truly incurable...
...minor bureaucrat in Madras, India, Ramanujan tried twice to interest professional mathematicians in his spare-time dabbling with numbers. All too familiar with numerological crackpots, they were profoundly uninterested. But Ramanujan persisted, and his third shot was the lucky one. The eminent Cambridge don G.H. Hardy took the time to decipher the young man's idiosyncratic scrawls and realized he was corresponding with a genius. Unlike trained mathematicians, Ramanujan knew his speculations about numbers were true, so he didn't bother to prove them. That wouldn't do. Hardy brought him to England in 1914, and the pair spent four...