Word: scientist
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...charges that he stole information or delivered secrets to Beijing. When he is invited back to China, the U.S. lets him go. Once home, he takes charge of ballistic-missile development, and today he is regarded as the father of China's missile force, awarded the highest honors a scientist can achieve. Qian is the brains behind the 20-odd '50s-era ICBMs, including those Beijing currently targets...
Anna Graham, this novel's sardonic narrator, wants nothing more than to be an actress, but is worried that her personality is too overpowering. So she sets about to obliterate it. Her efforts are soon joined by Damon Wetly, a scientist who magnanimously kidnaps Anna, reasoning that by breaking her will, he'll help her become a better actress. Questions on the nature of identity--is it fixed or fungible?--arise throughout Anna's captivity and its aftermath, but the amusingly absurd plot moves too swiftly to address them, opting instead for a tone that is rewardingly escapist...
Nevertheless, Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson noted that the recent study directly contradicts the controversial work of conservative social scientist Charles Murray, author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve. Murray suggested that unemployment rates among blacks have been high because of laziness and broken values...
...documentation in tow, will be any less intent on nailing both the Clinton administration (for unpatriotic negligence) and the Chinese (for -- gasp -- espionage!). Janet Reno, no stranger to calls for her resignation, looks likelier than ever to take the fall for denying the FBI a wiretap of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee. And China's Most Favored Nation status, up for renewal by Congress in June, could finally go down as well. (Though, as Beijing correctly points out -- while denying all charges -- the U.S. couldn't have gotten 700 detailed pages together without some serious spying...
...campaign is to have its own Alger Hiss, the prime candidate appears to be Attorney General Janet Reno. Even liberal New Jersey Democratic senator Robert Torricelli Sunday joined the Republican chorus calling for Reno's resignation, on charges that she failed to authorize an FBI wiretap of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, suspected of passing nuclear secrets to Beijing...