Word: neverable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing to point out that Sandia National Laboratories has nothing to do with Russ Humphreys' kooky ideas about a young Earth and sprinting continents (News, Nov. 9). He has never published these speculations in a science journal, nor has he presented them at Sandia for peer review...
Humphreys works at Sandia in a weapons engineering group, which does not do scientific research. He has never seen fit to explain to geologists at Sandia why he thinks their work to characterize the stability of nuclear waste sites is incorrect by many orders of magnitude. Doesn't he have a moral obligation to speak out? If these rocks have only been around for 6,000 years, then scientists' conclusions about their stability--and therefore their safety--are all wrong! It appears he would rather make trouble for schoolteachers than for his coworkers and he'd rather get his name...
...what you will about Alan Greenspan - and people have said plenty - the man is never predictable. The Federal Reserve Chairman made headlines again Tuesday, announcing a quarter-point raise in key interest rates. The hike, meant to stave off inflation in these times of hyperbolic growth and spending, caught some analysts off guard. "This raise is a bit unexpected," says TIME financial writer Bernard Baumohl. "There was a lot of uncertainty as to whether the Fed would move, since the economy has been showing signs of slowing down on its own." Example: Key consumer indicators such as retail sales...
...deficit, the Clinton administration missed a golden opportunity to invest in workers," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. "And no one, except maybe [former treasury secretary Robert] Rubin exemplified that dedication to deficit reduction more than Gore did." In fact, adds Tumulty, Reich and the vice president have never been philosophically close. "They parted ways...
...sleep 24 in a half-filled barracks, in too-short steel bunk beds. (We make them once, painstakingly, according to specifications, and sleep on top of the covers so as never to have to do it again.? It's an old trick.)? The night is filled with snores and somnolent murmuring ("Jennifer.? Bring me the iced tea.")? When you snap awake in the middle of the night, it's really hard to tell where you've landed...