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Though Michael Booth is a scientist, he delivers a speech like an actor. What he's about to say is "pretty frightening stuff," he tells an audience of mostly fellow academics in Sydney. "It should be R rated. It's not for the faint-hearted." And sure enough, Booth's lecture-on the results of a survey that found almost 25% of New South Wales pupils from infant school through Year 10 are overweight or obese, double the figure of 20 years ago-is chilling. After Booth, a researcher on adolescent health at the University of Sydney, reports some statistics...
...From Cosmic Rays to the Space Race Physicist James Van Allen, who discovered the radiation belts that encircle Earth, died on Aug. 9 at age 91. Our May 4, 1959, cover story revealed a dedicated scientist whose work assumed a political dimension, compliments of the cold...
...largely constructed in his basement laboratory, brought back from space discoveries the Russians never made. But Van Allen never expected to find himself, at 44, a key figure in the cold war"s competition for prestige. He is and always has been, by inclination and intent, a 'pure" scientist ... He started being curious about cosmic rays back in the prewar days when they were considered as wildly abstruse and impractical as a study of the mating habits of sea horses or the inner structure of a grasshopper"s brain. But today he can tip back his head and look...
...paper’s co-authors agreed. “I entered the group a curious student and I left a capable scientist,” said Brian C. Odom of the University of Chicago. “Sometimes advisers give their students projects which are a waste of time, or they don’t give them enough guidance, but Jerry gives the right projects and the right level of guidance to turn the students into scientists...
...scandal broke indicated that the SDP may now have a small lead. But the scandal may not be the boon to Persson it appears if it turns voters off. "Some people might think the whole election is nonsense and abstain from voting," says Professor Henrik Oscarsson, a political scientist from the University of Gothenburg. "The SDP will lose out if turnout...