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...also a shoddy social scientist whose landmark work is "an extravagant piece of speculation" based on elusive empirical evidence, according to the Atlantic Monthly's May cover story...
Beijing appears to have acquired U.S. nuclear secrets, and yet Washington has been unable to find any spies - and the government wants to know why. A Justice Department internal report, leaked to the media this week, slams the FBI both for errors in its investigation of Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee and for focusing too narrowly on Lee to the exclusion of other potential suspects. Despite more than a year of investigation, Lee remains the only suspect indicted, and he's been charged only with mishandling classified information by downloading classified files onto his own computer rather than...
...Among them are Shelby Brewer, an MIT-trained scientist and former deputy director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under President Reagan; retired Vice Admiral Michael P. Kalleres of the U.S. Navy, who served as commander of the Atlantic fleet during the Gulf War; and Aris Melissaratos, former director of the Westinghouse Science and Technology Center...
Seltzer did not get tenure because she can raise a child, she got tenure because of the quality of her work, which deserves some mention. You have belittled her accomplishment and judged her as "woman" and not as a scientist. Male professors have children who are important to them, and Seltzer has had a different experience because of her gender. This should not, however, be her defining characteristic...
Nelson, 40, who just began rock climbing with her husband and three children, believes doctors don't talk enough about what women with osteoporosis can do to help themselves. But she's too good a scientist to claim that weight training is a cure-all. Her latest book, Strong Women, Strong Bones (Putnam), the third of a series, also includes up-to-date nutritional and drug therapies for osteoporosis. "There's no magic bullet," Nelson says. "But strength training can mean the difference between having a vibrant old age and a frail...