Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pakistan scientist who befriended the literary. Gazette reporter was recently fired because he "was either a communist of the trend of a communist." Dennis said. The research at the Pakistan laboratory is funded by U.S. federal agencies, primarily the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Aid for International Development--not the CIA Dennis added...
...Ward, with a little help from Steinbeck, has peopled the row with an assortment of all-too-familiar oddballs. There's Doc (Nick Nolte), a handsome, lazy scientist: "the seer," a dotty wise-man-of-the-sea type: and Mac and his boys, a bumbling gang of filthy but lovable squatters that Ward milks for all the slapstick...
Edwin Land, a tinkering scientist, founded the Polaroid Corp. in 1937 to make nonglare lenses. In 1948 he marketed a new camera that could produce pictures immediately. Competitors like Eastman Kodak thought it was a gimmick, but the product was an overwhelming success and opened up a whole new industry. When Land retired as head of the company in 1980, he had accumulated Polaroid stock worth more than $75 million...
What was a serious scientist to make of such findings? Could the recollections be nothing more than dreams or hallucinations induced, perhaps, by drugs, lack of oxygen or brain seizures? Could they have been triggered by beta-endorphin, the body's naturally occurring opiate, which, Biologist-Author Lewis Thomas has suggested, may be released at the moment of death to "ensure that dying is a painless and conceivably pleasant experience...
DIED. Malcolm Moos, 65, versatile scholar and political scientist who, as President Dwight Eisenhower's chief speechwriter, helped to coin the expression "militaryindustrial complex" in Ike's farewell address; of an apparent heart attack; at Ten Mile Lake, Minn. A prolific author (Politics, Presidents and Coattails and The Republicans: A History of the Party), Moos served as president of the University of Minnesota during the 1960s...