Word: perishables
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent years there has been a growing number of such "disappointing events" in laboratories around the country. Yale, Cornell and Boston University have each had to contend with embarrassing cases of scientific fraud. According to a number of scientists, the tremendous pressures to "publish or perish" may be a factor in the trend. These pressures have been exacerbated by the intense competition for limited federal research funds. "Science is more expensive these days," says Albert H. Hastorf, Stanford's provost. "You need a big grant or you are out of business." Many leading research institutions have attempted to deal...
...PERISH THE THOUGHT. Illinois, renowned for its unsmiling rough-and-tumble political campaigns, has been worth a few laughs this election season. Out of the blue, Democratic Gubernatorial Challenger Adlai E. Stevenson III, 52, has publicly denied being a "wimp," though no one, not even Republican Incumbent "Big Jim" Thompson, 46, ever accused him of being one. At the same time, Thompson, seeking an unprecedented third term, was hurt early on by Illinois' faltering farm and industrial economy, his overly ardent support of Reagan, and revelations that he had accepted valuable gifts from constituents and people doing business with...
...nightingales, thrushes, plovers and owls; the rivers brim with trout; and the towns are peopled by honest peasants and serene aristocrats. One recalls a nobleman's dispensation of whisky to his neighbor's yeomanry. "Unfortunately, he forgot to provide water .. . 'We had to drink it or perish miserably of thirst' . . . It took a full week-end before the last of them had found his way home." White analyzes the philosophy of fishing in a style that Izaak Walton might envy, and his descriptions of dartboard arcana and Welsh superstitions belong on the shelf alongside Dickens. Another...
...were, into the void. "Death lies at the core of each person's private existence, but part of death's meaning is to be found in the fact that it occurs in a biological and social world that survives." Were that world to perish, it would be "the second death"-the death of the species, not just of the earth's population on doomsday, but of countless unborn generations. They would be spared literal death but would nonetheless be victims-in his view the most important victims-of a nuclear...
...Mockeries feed on the fruit of the Ombu tree, remove its outer layer and allow the seed to germinate. The tree grows, plays host to a moth that fertilizes the Amela tree-upon which the island's economy depends. Will the London plutocrats get their way? Will Zenkali perish? Will Peter entice Audrey into his sleeping...