Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WEEKS ago, I interviewed a young American scientist just back from a lecture tour of Indochina. The conversation got around to the role of American journalists in the Vietnam war, and one name came to his mind immediately. "Robert Shaplen," he said, "is the greatest apologist for American aggression alive today...
...There are no facilities for color photography in North Vietnam, very little printing facilities, the few posters I saw were originals and were not duplicated. In other words it's a country that by outward appearances is enormously poor. Now you might think that in their situation the typical scientist would be more directed toward practical things. The kind of stuff I do is of questionable interest to underdeveloped countries. But the fact of the matter is that among these hundred people the interest was enormous. What they knew and what they were interested in, I must confess, surprised...
...same time, the consciousness of the individual political scientist becomes a less important criterion of his usefulness. Huntington's paper is a "how to" paper; it is of immediate value, but insufficient for dealing with broad and enduring problems of political and social control. Huntington's efforts depend on research done by scholars who may in many respects oppose Huntington: nevertheless, he and his friends can employ that research to their own ends...
...This enables us to use small earthquakes to paint in the boundaries of the blocks of the earth that are moving," says Menlo Park's Jack Healy. Scientists are also studying the minute tilting of the ground that may precede quakes and the slow fault "creep" of those parts of the San Andreas that are moving freely. They are measuring the minute warping of rock along "locked" areas, changes that reflect the gigantic, subterranean forces urging that part of California west of the fault to move toward Alaska. In addition, the electrical and magnetic properties of rocks have been...
...more ingenious experiments in aquaculture has just begun on the Caribbean island of St. Croix. Conceived by scientists of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, it is based on a natural sea phenomenon. In areas of the world where the right combination of wind, current and slope of the continental shelf occurs, cold water from the ocean depths sometimes churns up to the surface. Laden with nutrients from decomposed sea life that has settled to the ocean deeps, these rising currents possess extraordinary fertilizing power. Once they reach the upper level of the ocean, where sunlight penetrates, they...