Word: scholarly
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Although it has long been famously neutral, Switzerland, as an English scholar once wrote, "has been in a state of war every weekend since 1945." The gibe has more than a little truth to it. On weekends rifle ranges around the country resound with the din of thousands of Swiss practicing their marksmanship. At the same time, Northrop F-5E Tiger fighter jets skim along mountain faces and blue-gray-uniformed figures clamber down couloirs and across alpine meadows. With a militia of 625,000 men, Switzerland, as the well-worn saying goes, does not have an army...
Another common misperception is that of Asian-Americans as "model minorities," the scholar said...
...critics have by no means been silenced. Some dispute the degree to which life-forms stabilize the atmosphere and temper the climate. Others contend that the emergence of oxygen in earth's atmosphere contradicts Gaia because it made the air poisonous for anaerobic creatures of primordial times. Evolutionary scholar Richard Dawkins argues that earth cannot be considered an organism because it does not reproduce. Gaian proponents respond that the increase of oxygen in the atmosphere was slow enough to allow the mix of life- forms to adjust, and physician-author Lewis Thomas answers Dawkins by coyly suggesting that, through space...
...source of the siren call is David F. Machell, associate professor at Western Connecticut State University. For years this justice and law administration scholar has boned up on his stress prognostication skills, first working with low-intensity occupations such as police work, physicians, priests before moving up to the big-league, another-faculty-meeting-another-swig-of-Maalox world of academia...
Just two years ago, Clark opposed the tenure bid of a radical legal scholar, reasoning that her written work was inadequate. Traditionally, the law faculty have rubber-stamped tenure offers, so Clark's strenuous opposition to the appointment continued to reverberate when he was named dean earlier this year...