Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...research centers for short visits and lecture tours. In 1988, 35 adventurers paid $35,000 each to set foot on the South Pole, and this year another group is skiing 600 miles to the bottom of the world. "Tourism really needs to be regulated," says Mary Voyteck, a scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund...
...then natural variability is very large. But % it's the global average that is important." While other climate experts are slower to make concrete predictions, Hansen's studies of global temperatures suggest that the warming trend has already begun and will soon become widely apparent. Warns the NASA scientist: "Our model predicts that by the middle of the 1990s, the greenhouse effect should be pretty clear not only to scientists, but also to the man in the street...
Their advanced age, Republicanism and durability create some parallels between Eisenhower and Reagan. But as a politician, the general was not the actor's equal. Political scientist Richard Neustadt points out that "Ike came into office with the status of a genuine national hero and merely had to preserve that aura. Reagan came in only with what he had on his back and had to create his stature." One indispensable item Reagan carried was a quiver of messages and images, simple but sharp, honed over his many years as a conservative advocate. His great skill was in making...
...problem is probably a combination of as yet elusive genetic, environmental, neurological or biochemical factors. Diagnosis is difficult, since there is no laboratory test for the disorder, and the symptoms are vague and confusing. "Hyperactivity is in the eyes of the beholder," notes James Kavanagh, an NIH behavioral scientist...
...help answer those questions, political scientist Michael Glantz of the National Center for Atmospheric Research has pioneered the use of a technique known as "forecasting by analogy" to predict the effects on society of future climatic change. In a series of case studies, Glantz and his colleagues analyzed the response of state and local governments to actual environmental events across the U.S., from a 12-ft. rise in the level of Utah's Great Salt Lake to the depletion of the aquifer that supplies groundwater to eight Great Plains states...