Word: scientistic
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...billion failure. From 1983 to 1984 Arens served as Defense Minister, a post that did nothing to lessen his commitment to Israeli control over the occupied territories. In 1986 Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir put Arens in charge of Israeli-Arab affairs. According to Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University and Labor supporter, Arens' primary goal "will be to try to dislodge the United States from a dialogue with the P.L.O. If there is someone who can present the case to the United States intelligently...
Hansen thus became perhaps the most prominent scientist willing to say straight out that the earth-warming effect of excess carbon dioxide (CO2) and other gases generated by industry and agriculture had crossed the line from theory into fact. By itself, Hansen's bold assertion was dramatic enough. But the unusual string of weather-related disasters that struck the world last summer could not have been better timed to drive his point home. The heat waves, droughts, floods and hurricanes may be previews of what could happen with ever increasing frequency if the atmosphere warms 3 degrees...
...switcheroo. All right, she seems to be on a battery-acid diet and needs instructions on matters as diverse as earthling sexual practices and the historical significance of Jimmy Durante. Nobody's perfect. But Celeste is a willing learner, and Dr. Steve Mills (Dan Aykroyd), the widower, father and scientist on whose signal into outer space she beamed down, is an eager, bedazzled teacher...
...agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower, one of the party's leading populists. "By God, it's awful we could not beat George Bush and Dan Quayle. They were perfect for us." This widespread view stems directly from the party's consistent strength at all other levels of government. As political scientist Nelson Polsby puts it, "The only thing wrong with the Democratic Party is that they can't elect a President. Everything else they're doing is right. The Senate, the House, party ID -- they're all fine...
From Ellesmere, an island 500 miles from the North Pole, scientist David Mech and photographer Jim Brandenburg bring back the first intimate images of wolves at home and on the hunt...