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Enter the man who may have finally invented a better mousetrap: political scientist James Fishkin, chairman of the government department at the University of Texas. He calls his innovative method for bridging the chasm between electors and the elected "a deliberative opinion poll." The voters will get a chance to see how it works on national public television next January...
Prosecutors contended that Moody, an amateur scientist from Rex, Ga., was also responsible for bombs that were intercepted at the federal court in Atlanta and the N.A.A.C.P. office in Jacksonville, for a tear-gas bomb that exploded in the Atlanta office of the N.A.A.C.P. and for threatening letters to judges and TV stations. Prosecutors said Moody tried to make the bombings appear racially motivated but that he really wanted to damage the court system because of a 1972 conviction for bomb possession. "Retaliation is a way of life for Mr. Moody," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Louis Freeh, "and the court...
...starters, take a charismatic scientist in west Africa, someone whose fictional career parallels Jane Goodall's or Dian Fossey's. Eugene Mallabar began by making scrupulous and original studies of chimpanzees during the 1950s and became a celebrity when his first best seller, The Peaceful Primate, was published. Documentaries, TV shows, citations and honorary degrees -- even a national park -- all followed, and Mallabar grew rich...
...popular saying goes, "You don't have to be a rocket scientist to . . ." The problem, of course, is that NASA is full of rocket scientists, but its fatal flaws always turn out to be of the homely variety. The engineers can rebuild computers floating upside down in space, but they forget to talk to one another on the ground. So the managers of the Hubble Space Telescope didn't know there may have been something wrong with the mirror's shape, and the launch officials didn't know O rings could stiffen in the cold. It is no knock...
...represents a very remarkable combination of talents," says Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry James G. Anderson. "Not only is he a superb scientist, he also has a profound intuition concerning literature and the humanities...