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Another view holds science writers themselves responsible for all the doom and gloom: because scientists write only for one another, usually in terms all but incomprehensible to lay people, word of new theories and breakthroughs is sometimes passed on to the public in overly dramatic and exaggerated form. Still, the most deadpan writing cannot disguise the drama of some of science's recent discoveries. The Big Bang theory of the universe, for example, has quite correctly convinced much of the public that the cosmos is unimaginably terrifying and violent. In the light of such findings, even theories that have...
...recent years European public health officials have been puzzled by a number of cholera outbreaks in areas where the disease is usually unheard of. Several such cases occurred in Czechoslovakia, Portugal and northern France; one even involved a woman, 65, who had never left her village and could not have had contact with any cholera carriers. Now a British researcher offers a novel explanation for these mysterious outbreaks. Writing in the British Journal of Hygiene, Dr. Charles Rondle and his colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine suggest that the cholera came, literally, out of thin...
...theory grew out of a chance conversation with a pilot friend, who asked if the venting of dirty water from handbasins in aircraft lavatories during flight (a common airline practice) could spread disease-causing bacteria. Intrigued, Rondle decided to investigate. He picked cholera as a potential airborne culprit because public health agencies keep close tabs on the disease. Thus when he traced regular aircraft routes between Calcutta, where cholera is endemic, and Western Europe, he found that the unexplained cholera cases had invariably occurred along or near these pathways...
...Harvard Public Affairs Library: Objection: Too plain and practical...
...Kennedy Kennedy School Library: Or, of course, "The Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy School Library," though it begins, then, to sound more like a law library. After all, why let only one Kennedy hog the glory of a public affairs school? Objection: The Kennedys have their name on enough stuff already. Further Objection: Spurious newspaper investigations have revealed a Kennedy-if Engelhard was really so evil as some paint him), then perhaps we should think about renaming the Kennedy School of Government. That, however, is another contest...