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Energy Future is the result of a six-year project directed by Professor Robert Stobaugh of the Harvard Business School and the book's co-editor, Political Scientist Daniel Yergin, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; five Harvard Business School faculty members and doctoral candidates contributed to the book. Some chapters were written by one or two team members, but the whole group supported the findings...
Jorges Dominiquez is a well-respected political scientist, but a little dull as a speaker. Don't go to his lecture on communist regimes, but do stop and talk with him afterwards...
LOUIS MASOTTI, political scientist (Northwestern): Ralph Nader. Recalls, product guarantees, truth in packaging, truth in lending, almost all these things were a spillover of the challenge of this one person. Another is Barry Commoner. He has raised our consciousness about the environment and ecological system. I might have chosen Jerry Brown, if he had turned out to be more consistent and positive...
EDWARD TELLER, scientist: Biologist Norman Borlaug, who with his colleagues developed a strain of wheat that is helping to feed the world. The most important man who brought refugees to this country, from Hungarians to Indochinese, is Leo Cherne, executive director of the Research Institute of America. Dixy Lee Ray, the Governor of Washington, is a politician and a scientist who pulled the Atomic Energy Commission out of a deep mire by reorganizing the agency. She made many enemies, and had no support, but became the Governor of a state...
...Edward Stone, 43, is the chief scientist for the highly successful Voyager 2 space probe that last month sent back invaluable data on the ring around Jupiter. A cosmic ray physicist born in Iowa and educated at the University of Chicago, Stone teaches at Caltech and directs 100 scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is now working on a 1983 "solar-polar" mission that will orbit two satellites in opposite directions around the sun's poles. The aim: to learn more about how energy flows from the sun and affects the earth's environment. Says Dr. Bruce Murray, director...