Word: nonscientist
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...lost vital pharmaceutical, biochemical and agrochemical research work - "and who's going to invest in the U.K. if a few demonstrators can drive a company out of business?" Once the government understood that, says Cass, it was "tremendous" in its support. Sixteen months after he was assaulted, Cass - a nonscientist - was honored by the Queen for services to medical research. "We happen to be the target now," says Cass, "but it could be someone else tomorrow. The government knows that." That knowledge has helped fuel the newest animal-testing controversy in Cambridgeshire. In May 2002, Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged...
...feasible and was trying to pin the blame on the Pentagon. To break the impasse, retired Army Major General John Murray was asked by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to review the Pentagon records. After a four-month study, Murray thought the records were useful. But as a nonscientist he did not feel competent to rebut the objections raised by Houk and the White House scientists. He gave up, agreed that the information was inadequate and suggested cancellation of the project...
...most confusing is the book's inconsistent tone. LeBaron, with his nonscientist credentials as his trump, mixes complete naivete with brutal cynicism. This is the insider who still considers himself on the outside. By the end you can't tell whether he hated his first year, or if he would recommend Harvard Medical School to someone else. He can't seem to understand why anyone beside himself would ever even want to go to Medical School...
Tunnels & Towers. Streams of skilled workers and a continual coming and going of scientists from many laboratories create the air of important things afoot. The number of employees of Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co., which supplies nonscientist help, has jumped to 1,600 from 878 in 1960. Total employment at the site is now about 2,500. On the great barren area (40 miles by 30 miles), the AEC is testing a nuclear rocket engine, Project Rover, and a nuclear ramjet, Project Pluto (so far non-explosively), is also using chemical explosives to make studies of craters. Since most nuclear authorities...
...created a course which reflects his personal philosophy, and it is likely that it will succeed through his teaching ability. But the course must be measured against a more objective standard--it is the crucial test of whether General Education in the sciences can be made meaningful for the nonscientist as well as scientist...