Word: peers
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With the present shortage of government research funds, much unsound or unproductive research will inevitably be weeded out by peer review groups. Yet the protests will not cease until scientists have learned to deal openly and directly with animal protection groups. Certainly some extremist protestors will continue to ignore the facts that some repetition of experiments on animals must be done to maintain scientific integrity, and that much research simply cannot be replaced by working with computer models. But most animal care protestors will find that their feelings of empathy exist in researchers as well, and will be able...
People begin drinking socially for a myriad of reasons, including, most notably, peer pressure. But the answer to one question remains elusive: Why do people become alcoholics? In the continuum from a few too many drinks at a party to loss of control over drinking, where is the trigger point? Vaillant says that it is impossible to say, but at some level the casual drinker becomes physiologically and psychologically addicted to liquor. "You are an alcoholic," says Vaillant, "when you're not always in control of when you begin drinking and when you stop drinking...
...purely subjective and personal outlook. Success usually comes only after the classical composer dies and sometimes not at all. And, as Rockwell argues, the best classical music often comes from the outsider, the artist who is not affected by the corrosive influences of monetary success, trendiness, or peer pressure...
...that end, TIME this week begins a series of profiles on the leading presidential candidates, declared and not yet announced. "Our aim," says Ajemian, "is not to tell how they stack up, one vs. another, but to learn what motivates them, to try to peer through the psychological cover that politicians wear so well and sense, as best we can, the essence of these...
...chill Johnny Miller? "Don't disturb the bear," Lee Trevino shuddered, even when Trevino was disturbing him greatly. Watson was the first to come along who really thought he was the equal of Nicklaus, and he is the only one Nicklaus truly came to regard as a peer. Over the past six years, Watson has won twice as many major championships (6 to 3), twice as much money and five P.G.A. Player-of-the-Year awards. But the public is no more disposed to throw over Nicklaus for Watson than it once was to drop Arnold Palmer for Nicklaus...