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...already winning national model-airplane contests. "At the time I wished that I could be a football hero and a smooth character," he says. "But I now realize that if I had been, I'd be just an overage football jock instead of still plying my trade as a scientist and an engineer...
...certainly is a setback," said Judith s. Lieberman '63, a Tufts University research scientist who was nominated by HRAAA this year...
...Ages they expected Christ to come at any time after the great plague in Europe, where 1 out of 3 people died. I personally think things are now converging for the first time in history, fulfilling the prophecies that he himself made about his coming. I had a German scientist say to me the other day that from a scientific point of view, man is almost at the end now. He was not talking about religion. I would say that people seem to sense that we cannot go on forever...
...this was the precise spot where the famous Verninsky earthquake had caused the lake to swallow up 35 acres of shoreline in the 19th century; it was a seismically active region. But instead of canceling the project, the authorities transferred responsibility to the Ministry of Medium Machine Building. One scientist taunted me: "Do you know who's in charge of the murder of Baikal? Your own Slavsky!" New plans were drawn up for earthquake-resistant aluminum-and-glass buildings supported by steel piles. But the buildings are still vulnerable to the major earthquakes that have occurred there once or twice...
...father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, then reviled as a traitor for his tireless defense of human rights, recounts his tumultuous life. -- A look at Lavrenti Beria, a "terrifying human being." -- The Oppenheimer-Teller feud. -- The man who poisoned Soviet science. -- Why Sakharov ranks as a world-class scientist...