Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jewish activists in Russia characterized the education levies as both punitive and illegal. Since the levies range from 4,800 rubles for a teachers-college education to 21,000 rubles for a Ph.D., and the average university graduate earns from 120 to 150 rubles a month, one Jewish scientist in Moscow observed that it would take him 200 years to accumulate the money. The Soviets admit that university graduates repay the expense of their education by their labor within four or five years...
...between the mumbo jumbo and the occasional work that is valuable. How? By testing his brainpower on a few hard books like Bertrand Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy and J.H. Woodger's Biological Principles. If these volumes are comprehensible but the work of a particular social scientist seems obscure, "then you can justifiably suspect that it might all be nonsense...
...safety device called teh "emergency core cooling system." This back-up complex of pipes and valves is designed to bathe the hot reactor core with cooling water if the main cooling system fails. Since the system has not ever actually been tested, not even in scale models, scientists have had to depend on mathematical models to decide whether it would really work. In the hearings, much to the AEC's chagrin, many of its own top nuclear-safety experts testified that "technically indefensible" assumptions were being made about the device. One AEC scientist even went...
Roszak struggles to be fair, but the scientist is the devil in his cosmology. The goal of science, B.F. Skinner once said, is the destruction of mystery. Roszak believes science has succeeded all too well. "Machines, gadgets," not to mention "the computers," represent "mankind tyrannized by the work of his own hands." Furthermore, he sees "objectivity," the scientific act of knowledge, as an act of alienation, if not of sacrilege. "Break faith with the environment," reads Roszak's version of the scientist's Faustian compact, "and you will surely gain power...
...each other. Talbot Edelman, M.D., is a self-acclaimed student of death whose inquiries include mutilating experiments on his dog Sally. A lyric-writing old gent named Turnlung is also an expert-a virtual memory bank of death and that other equable state, prenatal life. Both Talbot, the death scientist, and Turnlung, the death artist, develop a need and deep affection for one another. Both are in training for death, and it seems fair to construe that their love is the main event. For to love is to accept the certainty of eventual loss...