Word: scientistic
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POLITICAL SCIENTIST Ethel Klein's first book goes a long way towards proving several commonly held beliefs about women's political behavior. Her comparisons of the presidential elections since the Nixon/McGovern race show a sometimes small but statistically significant difference in the way women and men choose candidates and parties and rank issues. Gender Politics, however, may be more important for the future of the Women's Movement for what it says about the relationship between group consciousness and mass political action...
...most august scientific body, the National Academy of Sciences. Three years ago, Paul Crutzen, a Dutch meteorologist who is now director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, West Germany, suggested that a cataclysmic nuclear war could be followed by a period of icy gloom. Later, Atmospheric Scientist Richard Turco of R&D Associates in Marina del Rey, Calif., Astronomer Carl Sagan of Cornell University and a handful of other researchers elaborated on the idea, concluding that the cold, which they called nuclear winter, could last for months. Some scientists have disagreed with a few of the more...
...young Bell scientist makes a major math breakthrough
...first hall of "Superman The Movie" was devoted to establishing the origins of the Man of Steel "Supergirl" does the same in 15 minutes. Argo City, a surviving Kryptonian colony in "inner space," depends on the omegahedron for its energy. Chief Scientist Zaltar (Peter O'Toole) steals the magic ball, Supergirl loses it, and then steals Zaltar's ship to find it. Arriving on earth in full costume, she starts hunting for the MacGuffin (Alfred Hitchcock's) word for the jewel/microfilm/painting/whatever that everyone is hunting for in a typical thriller...
...amply endowed with the taxpayers' money, as an arrogant and isolated state within a state, condescending toward the rest of the country, enamored of itself and puffed up by its social pretensions and inside rituals. That legend now has some scholarly support. Austin Ranney, a resident political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, points out that the losers in past elections have often blamed the electorate. In their despair they have decided that the voters were "a bunch of jerks," not "the good peasants and yeomen" of yore. This time, says Ranney, the sense of disunion may be greater...