Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says University of Tennessee Political Scientist Joseph Dodd, a sharp critic of the fair: "City resources are being used to benefit a small number of wealthy people. There's a direction to the flow of money. The direction always comes back to the Butcher network...
...space trucking business" and back into its primary role as a research and development agency that opens up new avenues to the high frontier of space. Beggs already has one idea he wants NASA to pursue: "platform," a building the permanent first habitat true space where scientist astronauts could live and work in orbit. With a little trucking help from the shuttle, of course. - - By By Frederic Golden...
Hawking's father was a scientist too, a biologist who researched tropical diseases. Although his father encouraged him to pursue biology and medicine. Hawking avoided these fields because he thought they were too impercise. If he had been able to predict the explosion in molecular biology, however, the physicist says he might have chosen that route since it is "one of the most exciting fields in science today...
...years ago, the fondest hope of Carole Ely and Lore Harp was to escape the bored-housewives trap and do something really bold like, say, opening a travel agency. When Lore's husband Bob, a scientist at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., suggested that they think big and take a plunge into computers instead, they responded with what amounted to uncomprehending stares. Neither knew the first thing about the exotic world of computers...
Cherbas and others agree that this unique opportunity for undergraduates, which has increased markedly in the past 10 years, gives the students the chance to experiment with the idea of being a scientist Currently Williams has the most under graduates in the entire Biology department, and as some speculate, more than all the other divisions combined. By doing extensive research, the students become experts quickly and can participate in discussions and develop their own ideas. Since Riddiford's time in the lab, the ratio of undergraduates to graduates working under Williams' has been reversed. When she was there...