Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could prove that seeding caused the course change, fear of lawsuits has limited Stormfury targets to hurricanes at least 48 hours away from shore-nearly 1,000 miles at the hurricane's average speed of 20 miles per hour. "Bureaucrats are scaredy-cats," growls one Stormfury scientist. Beyond such limitations, the storm killers want a hurricane that is moving toward the coast and not fluctuating as erratically as Arlene...
...story, first published in 1874, is dressed up with charming illustrations by William Pène du Bois and an intro duction in the form of a biography of Verne by Scientist Willy Ley. But there is perhaps one Oxphyxiated refugee from Quiquendone who now works for Macmillan. He is the fellow who de cided to print the book so that it must be held 90° around from the normal, so that pages must be turned from top to bottom instead of right to left. But this should not deter true lovers of the Vernacular...
...experiments, Dr. Maher attempted to determine if there were any particular personality traits associated with indecisiveness. He explained yesterday that a behavioral scientist works under very real limitations: "We simply have no idea what's going on in a child's head. Therefore we must speculate, and we are often led astray by our own speculations...
...behavioral scientist, he feels, must avoid the temptation to settle into secure theories that eventually will color his own perception of actual occurrences. Quipped Maher: "theory is cheery, but data is greater...
...London's Old Bailey, a jury pondered the Crown's case against Italian Nuclear Scientist Giuseppe Martelli, including the elaborate espionage equipment found in his possession and his repeated contacts with known Soviet agents. Defendant Martelli readily admitted most of the Crown's charges, but explained that he had merely been stringing out the negotiations with the Reds in order to denounce them at the right moment to British authorities. After deliberating for nine hours and 47 minutes, the jurors decided to believe Martelli and declared him not guilty...