Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Worst of all, debate critics assert, the match-ups have turned into a game of gaffe exploitation. "Modern debates are the political version of the Indianapolis Speedway," charges Political Scientist Nelson Polsby of the University of California, Berkeley. "What we're all there for-the journalists, the political pundits, the public-is to see somebody crack up in flames." Trivial mistakes get blown out of all proportion. Harking back to some celebrated ones from past debates, Kansas Senator Robert Dole, the admitted loser of a TV match against Walter Mondale in 1976 when they were opposing candidates for Vice...
Debate supporters generally reply in effect: If you think debates are bad, just try imagining what electronic-era campaigns would be like without them. "Most Americans," says Harvard Political Scientist Gary Orren, "would get their political information from two sources: either from the Pepsi-Cola-like ads that the candidates put out-and boy, they're getting good at it!-or through little snippets that are no longer than 1 min. 20 sec. on the nightly TV news." For all their artificiality, the debates offer voters a rare chance to see the candidates in a situation they...
That the physicist learned of his prize in transit was fitting. Known among his friends as "the Alitalia scientist," Rubbia, 50, frequently flies from CERN, located outside Geneva where he does his research, to Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where he teaches physics. His relentless energy and aggressive pursuit of ideas are what led to his discovery of three critical subatomic particles, ending a 20-year hunt that involved hundreds of scientists...
...Dutch-born Van der Meer, 58, who once worked for Philips Electronics as a research scientist, is the very opposite of Rubbia. He is self-effacing and calm; winning the Nobel does not noticeably excite him, although he admittedly wanted it. Says he: "Let us say that I didn't exclude it, yet I did not dare to hope we'd get it." -By Natalie Angier. Reported by Robert Kroon/Geneva
...example, if a scientist develops an idea for a software program, the facility would be available for testing and further development of the product. Currently, while many hardware development centers exist, researchers say they have trouble finding an outlet to test novel software plans...