Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the scientific resources that had been marshaled for World War II -- including the top-secret Manhattan Project, which built the atom bomb -- were reorganized to serve the period of economic growth (and the uneasy peace) that followed. Under a philosophy outlined by Vannevar Bush, science adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, the huge flow of public dollars allocated to cure diseases and fight the cold war was distributed according to a chaotic system dubbed "scientific pluralism." Basically this meant that the money was funneled through review boards manned by scientists, who gave it to researchers proposing projects considered worthy...
...against the scientific grain." Others complain that he encourages too much alcohol consumption, which could cause liver damage. Montignac denies his diet is high in cholesterol and recommends cooking in olive oil and other unsaturated fats. Still, Dr. Stephen Heymsfield of the Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City gives Montignac the benefit of the doubt: "His physiobiology -- the glycemic index -- is oversimplistic, but nonscientists always oversimplify. However, it seems his recommendations are not necessarily outside accepted science and not dangerous...
Hershberg's work tells the full story of how the chemistry professor who served as president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953 was a key advisor in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to approve a crash effort to build the atom bomb...
Harvard has a special responsibility to campaign against nuclear weapons, Forrow says. He cites former Harvard President James B. Conant '13, who acted as science adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and oversaw the construction and deployment of the atomic bomb during World...
...could well be that the only thing at Harvard older than the boxing club is its coach, Tommy Rawson. The club was founded more than a century ago and can boast having schooled Teddy Roosevelt '04 in the sweet science. Rawson, born in 1908, can boast of many more interesting things...