Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael Fey, it is the "most important advance in dietary health since the invention of pasteurization." To Denis Mosgofian, it is the "massacre of the American food supply." Fey, a food scientist, works for a company called Radiation Technology. Mosgofian is director of the National Coalition to Stop Food Irradiation. The two men are talking -- yelling, really -- about one of the most emotional health issues of the 1980s: the use of irradiation as a preservative. The mixing of gamma rays with edibles has set off a nuclear food-chain reaction, releasing high rhetoric, short tempers and mass uncertainty...
...candidates avoid feminist labels. They play the political game by traditional rules, rising through the party hierarchy. Their presence in elections has become so commonplace that voters have almost ceased to notice it. "I think the (gender) issue has been neutralized," says University of Nebraska Political Scientist Robert Sittig. "The Nebraska candidates had established themselves long before this election. I think people see them as career politicians." Irene Natividad, head of the National Women's Political Caucus, agrees: "There are more women in the political pipeline than there used to be." Although the number of women candidates for Congress...
...with the imprisonment of Nicholas Daniloff, which jeopardized the prospect of a summit meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The cause seemed absurdly disproportionate to the possible effects: the FBI arrested a Soviet scientist who almost unquestionably was engaged in espionage, and the KGB retaliated by entrapping a U.S. journalist in Moscow who just as unquestionably...
There are some outstanding exceptions. Nobel Physicist Carlo Rubbia takes on freshmen in a seminar program. Nuclear Expert and Political Scientist Joseph Nye dines informally with undergrads and hosts small discussion groups. Alan Brinkley, son of TV Commentator David, teaches an oversubscribed course on the Viet Nam War and a lecture series in American history. He does so with such fine basic organization that students claim their notes write themselves. Physics Professor Gerald Holton has punctuated his lecture on dynamics and energy by strapping on a helmet, jumping into a go-cart powered by a fire extinguisher and jetting...
...International Commission on Radiological Protection, initially predicted that radiation from the disaster would cause as many as 24,000 cancer deaths over the next 70 years. They later reduced their estimate by more than half after further studying the Soviet data. The revision stirred charges that the scientists were bowing to the nuclear power industry. Thomas Cochran, senior scientist at the New York City-based Natural Resources Defense Council, contended that the initial 24,000 figure was probably far too low. While the experts argued, workers labored to restore the land around Chernobyl. A newspaper in Soviet Estonia reported that...