Word: peers
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Scientists can peer inside the body and brain, and measure wind speed on Mars. But the chemical reaction between performers onstage and an audience a few feet below defies explanation. If a show works, its flaws are easily forgiven and the faces out front light up with enthusiasm. If it does not, those onstage are subjected to the theatrical world's most terrifying noise: the sound of hundreds of yawns, politely stifled. So perhaps it is best not to spend too long trying to explain the attractions of the musical version of La Cage aux Folles, which opened...
What distinguishes Puberty Blues from other films about teenage escapades and painful experiences during rebellious adolescence is its candid outlook at a tightly defined peer subculture. The heroines perceptions are warped by their fascination with being accepted, and their desires for freedom are quelled not by authority figures like parents but by their own burgeoning awareness of their own needs--which do not necessarily include belonging to the cool surfer clique: We identify with Debbie and Sue because their struggles with independence are fresh and vivid, and at times terribly frustrating. Beresford doesn't condemn these characters. Rather he reaffirms...
...House Science Office also should share the blame. Earlier this year, President Reagan's science adviser George A. Key worth proposed a $152 million advanced materials center be built at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory near the campus of the University of California without allowing for the competitive selection through peer review. Normally, the funds would be proposed by an agency and then allocated by Congress. The agency--the Department of Energy in the case of the advanced materials center--would subsequently charge a group of scientists with selecting the appropriate location for the center...
Some changes in the policy should be made. Although the peer review subversion was ill-advised, the Keyworth initiative did raise a legitimate complaint about the system. It is true that the U.S. needs desperately to develop materials in which to compete both militarily and economically with other countries and that going through a couple of years of scientific review could delay the project. Keyworth is correct in his efforts to try and galvanize U.S. scientific efforts toward competition with the country's military and economic foes and to do that as soon as possible. However, that goal and scientific...
...sides should behave more honorably. Although the 1984 budget has been sent to the president and no further large scale funding proposals will be made until the next year's budget process begins later this year, universities, agency officials, and congressmen should stand by peer review and make sure that these three incidents become isolated events rather than everyday occurrences. Crimson John D. Solomon