Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China, Board, and recognize cabinmases: Dan and Francine, the hand-holding couple asking directions to the Mongolian Embassy, and Eddy, the German with the bell on his pack at the Russian Embassy, Farewell champagne toasts on platform 7 a.m. departure, Great Wall. Noodle soup with Chinese scientist in the dining car. Talk about China; big cheer from English students as we leave. Chinese home movies at Er Lian station: "Peasant Tourist Makes Visit to Scenic Spot...
...would have nightmares when left alone overnight. Eddy tells me about West Germany, about the East German soldiers woken to drill for attack every night until they say, "I wish we could wipe them out so we could get some sleep." We place bets on whether the Chinese scientist traveling with his colleagues to a conference in Yugoslavia will change out of his pajamas before we reach Moscow...
Edward Witten, a young Princeton scientist with an informal standing offer to join Harvard's Physics Department, is in a tricky situation...
...Drift," Pastan compares the movement of two sleepy lovers to the phenomenon of continental drift. A scientist would mumble about geology to explain a concept that always shocks people the first time they hear it. Conventional approaches to everything are dissolving, information is exploding, and the earth's very continents are slowly moving apart. Pastan dismisses the scientist's wishy-washy explanations simply: "It is natural law this drift...
...drawn seats, more than any other state. There, the Democrats, making an issue of Social Security as well as the economy, should carry at least two of the new districts. "Not since 1964 has Social Security played such an important part in a campaign," says Florida State University Political Scientist Douglas St. Angelo. In California, where the Democrats controlled the redistricting process, they are likely to win the state's two new seats and three or four others...