Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...targeted for an area near the planet's north polar hood, where moisture may still exist.) Instead of jet fuel, which would contaminate Mars with hydrocarbons, the landers' descent rockets are powered by purified hydrazine, a nitrogen-hydrogen compound. This, explains Richard S. Young, chief program scientist for the mission, will cause minimal pollution of the Martian environment...
...wife's family has a New England-style residence. Although he has dropped out of the Big Canyon Country Club, he and his wife occasionally attend private parties. Friends say that Haldeman's ordeal has tapped new strengths and vitality and he is bearing up with Christian Scientist calm. He takes tennis lessons and plucks away at the guitar...
...rights, insists that there have been no reforms since Khrushchev's modest relaxations more than 15 years ago. Sakharov patiently conducts his lost cause from a bleak Moscow apartment that is a mecca for Soviets in trouble with the KGB-and for Westerners whose respectful visits help the scientist stay out of jail. No students, not even a one-man demonstration, speak up for Solzhenitsyn or Sakharov, or even against pollution...
...fewer than 23 million out of 211 million. But last year, according to Government estimates, 800,000 to 1.5 million slipped back into poverty because of the combination of recession and inflation. Though the slippage is doubtless temporary, it has led to great disillusionment among those left behind. Political Scientist Charles Lindblom of Yale asserts that capitalism in the past has depended on women, blacks and other groups to accept unthinkingly a disadvantaged role and a meager share of the system's rewards. Now they are pressing for full equality and, says Lindblom, "it's really touch and go" whether...
Borderland by Neil Claremon. 192 pages. Knopf. $6.95. This remarkable novelette refutes an ancient adage: blood can be coaxed from a stone. The stone is that adamantine sector between Mexico and the U.S. The blood is the fervent tale of an American scientist, J.P., and his Indian mistress, Tsari. J.P.'s gift is an ordinary one: he can only find water under dry land. Tsari has more profound talents: in trances she can heal wounds, commune with animals and see the human soul. It is a secret that she comes in time to share-with ambiguous and perhaps dire...