Word: penants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Herschbach, having won recognition for research on "the lunatic fringe" of science, turns out to be the most able to explain his research not only in plain English, but in graphically illustrative terms. He drew an analogy last Wednesday--the day the Boston Red Sox won the American League penant--to show how his work makes it possible to look at the motion of individual molecules rather than groups of them. "Suppose baseball were played by millions of pitchers throwing millions of balls at millions of batters at the same time. No one would be interested because no one would...