Word: physicist
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...scanning the skies for meaningful radio signals yielded nothing but static and was folly besides. The new theory favors the "window of contact," the relatively brief span during which any civilization achieves industrial know-how and then either destroys itself or lapses into self-absorbed silence. As a physicist aboard the Eurydice explains, "Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier...
...mostly microwaves; exploded in space, it could fry the electronic circuitry and computer chips of an enemy command center. Another bomb would concentrate the force of a nuclear blast on a small target; aimed at, say, the Kremlin, it could leave the rest of Moscow intact. The result, says Physicist Ted Taylor, "is a weapon as different from current nuclear weapons as a rifle is technologically from gunpowder." It is, he continues, "qualitatively a new phase in nuclear weapons development...
...three days in Moscow. To some extent the Soviets appeared determined to play down the visit, largely because of France's expulsion last month of six Soviet officials on charges of spying on the Ariane rocket program. The Soviets retaliated in kind. Nonetheless, Chirac had an unscheduled encounter with Physicist Andrei Sakharov and a long meeting with Gorbachev that left the Premier enthusiastic about the General Secretary's reforms. On arms-control issues, however, Chirac retained his skepticism about Moscow's double-zero proposal to eliminate medium- and shorter-range nuclear weapons in Europe...
...last column, I made a pejorative reference to a magazine--which may or may not exist--called Physicist's Weekly. At the time, I thought such a title was the most ridiculous possible for a magazine or trade journal. It seemed even more obscure than Statistician's Monthly which does exist and is stocked in Hilles. Ah, but I was wrong. I had never been to Langdell Library...
After making several trips to the Law Library in the past few days, I found that Physicist's Weekly doesn't even make the list of publications appealing to ridiculously narrow audiences. Certainly The Accountant's Digest appeals to a much smaller and more select audience. So do The Accountant's Journal, Accounting Review, and Accounting Trends and Techniques...