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...hero of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is someone even younger, smarter and less hip than Foer. Oskar Schell is a weird, compulsive, deeply nerdy 9-year-old kid who lost his father in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Oskar's many obsessions include physicist Stephen Hawking, playing the tambourine, looking for mistakes in the New York Times, and inventing things: "There are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?" And so on. When Oskar discovers...
Perhaps most importantly, Posner’s book sends a strong message to us humanities and social sciences concentrators. Our physicist friends seem to be not guilty of endangering the Earth with their expensive particle accelerators. But just as science concentrators don’t docilely demur on questions of politics and economics, we should keep an eye on the folks hunkered down in Harvard’s state-of-the-art labs...
Perhaps most importantly, Posner’s book sends a strong message to us humanities and social sciences concentrators. Our physicist friends seem to be not guilty of endangering the Earth with their expensive particle accelerators. But just as science concentrators don’t docilely demur on questions of politics and economics, we should keep an eye on the folks hunkered down in Harvard’s state-of-the-art labs...
...severely criticized for its investigation of physicist Wen Ho Lee in the mid-'90s, has added hundreds more counterintelligence agents and put at least one in every Energy Department research facility. The bureau also started cooperation initiatives with corporations, but still sees universities as a soft spot, with some 150,000 Chinese currently studying in the U.S. The FBI'S three most recent counterintelligence arrests were of suspects who had held student visas at some point. To help sort the few who go to America to spy from the thousands who go there for a better life, the FBI relies...
Sakharov, a preeminent Soviet nuclear physicist, became an outspoken critic of human rights violations in the former Soviet Union. He won the Nobel Peace Prize...