Word: scientists
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Until lately, Richard Bach was a reader in the Church of Christ, Scientist, and Christian Science is one of the strongest religious strains in Jonathan. Mary Baker Eddy taught that evil, death and birth are illusory. Her philosophy, like Jonathan's, projected man as a timeless being. The "real" person is the soul that has always existed, not the one we mistakenly think was born...
...rather than trim his mustache one-quarter inch at each end and so comply with a new directive against "bushy-appearing" upper lips. Most of Ottumwa sympathized with Bach on that horrendous issue. But not long afterward he scandalized his congregation by withdrawing from the Church of Christ, Scientist, not because he disagrees with much of its teaching but because he has come to hate all religious labels and says flatly, "Organization can ruin anything." (Similarly, on a more frivolous matter, Bach stopped sending Christmas cards a few years back. "In the U.S.," he says mildly, "Christmas has become...
...scientists have every reason to be happy. In photographs of the U.S. West, for example, geologists discovered previously unknown faults in California's Monterey region. They also spotted remnants of an old volcano near Reno, Nev., that seems to be undergoing gradual uplifting by subterranean forces. In Oklahoma, scientists detected timber that had been harmed by exposure to the powerful chemical defoliant 245-T as part of a field-clearing effort; earlier observations by plane had failed to spot the damage. Off Cape Cod, the satellite quickly showed oceanographers what changes currents are causing in the topography...
...Bronx, a thousand or so people gathered to hear a talk by British Novelist-Scientist C.P. Snow. As they might have suspected, Lord Snow expounded on one of his pet subjects: genetics. "Men are equal in death," said Snow. "They are not born equal." It is nonsense, he continued, to think humans are born as blank sheets of paper to be filled in by parents, teachers and circumstances. After talking, Snow sipped tea, nibbled sandwiches, and allowed that he is very fond of the U.S. "I like the enormous intelligence of the people, the astonishing variety of virtue and skill...
...academics thought of themselves as intellectuals whose interests could hardly be equated with those of organized labor-or even with such lower-level colleagues as public-school teachers. All that has changed across the country as enrollments stagnated, money became tight and jobs scarce. Explains Ellis Katz, a political scientist and a leading union organizer at Temple: "There is a growing sense of alienation and frustration here and elsewhere, a feeling that we're up against a period of anti-intellectualism where we'll need to stand united...