Word: priesthoods
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...anyone who took high school or college biology before the enlightenment of the 1950s, the subject was closed. Even the magical initials DNA were scarcely known outside the scientific priesthood. But while the public remained ignorant of the intellectual time bomb silently ticking in its midst, a few young renegades created a startlingly new discipline that they called molecular biology...
...words came in the customary papal message to priests upon their Holy Thursday renewal of vows, but to Vatican watchers the occasion was anything but routine. Along with the 8,000-word statement on the priesthood, two chapters of which were a virtual mini-encyclical on celibacy, John Paul issued a 1,600-word letter to the world's bishops, exhorting them to make certain that priests follow his teachings. Only the Vatican has the power to release a priest from his vows. During John Paul's half year as Pope, the Vatican has received more than...
More specifically, Brown ripped into "the medical-industrial complex" and the high costs of health care. "The hospital today is the equivalent of the cathedral of the Middle Ages," he charged. "There is a high priesthood; there are mandatory offerings." As hospitals and doctors enjoy more money, he said, "we get more surplus hospital beds, more surplus technology, and we create a medical arms race." Brown contended that the U.S. armed forces "have the highest tail-to-teeth ratio [support-to-combat troops] in the world. Cuts are possible; I say less tail and more teeth." He advocated some form...
...interviews. Einstein was besieged by lecture invitations, received by presidents and kings and given tumultuous welcomes by throngs from Tokyo to Manhattan. Popular books were written to explain the mysteries of relativity. Still, the theory was difficult, its mathematics decipherable by only a tiny part of the scientific priesthood. Asked if it were true that only three people understood the subject, Eddington jokingly countered, "I'm trying to think who the third person...
...Fransisco Chronicle, asking what kind of government Iran could possibly have lacking the Shah concluded that "it would be hard to convince us that any modern state as large and economically advanced as Iran could conceivably be ruled successfully or for long by the kind of fanatic priesthood that Khomeini symbolizes...