Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...data-even though they were designed by Pioneer's prime contractor, TRW Inc., to last only six months; only one is experiencing some difficulty with a solar sensor. Signals are also still coming from Pioneer 10, which is now heading out of the solar system. Says Pioneer Project Scientist John H. Wolfe: "We now figure that if they make it for six months, they'll probably last forever...
Unmotivated Wanderer. No social scientist but a journalist and a former editor at the New Leader, Gilder plowed through obscure census data and federal studies for a year. He then sur faced with an alarming statistical portrait of the single man: he earns far less than a married man, is roughly twice as likely to commit crimes, go to jail and die early. He is also much more likely to develop physical and emotional illnesses and commit suicide. Though married blacks and single women face real handicaps in the job market, they make about the same amount of money...
...genial, contemplative Van Allen, ingenuity in planning space missions is nothing new. It was the University of Iowa scientist who had the foresight to prepare the tiny, 5½-in.-wide Geiger counter and transmitter that rode the first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, into space in 1958 and provided the initial clues that the earth is surrounded by belts of charged particles trapped in its magnetic field...
Bourne particularly objects to Primate's lack of explanatory narration. He cites as one of many examples a scene in which a scientist cuts open a heavily anesthetized monkey, injects something into his heart, and then snips off his head, explaining "I'm going to remove the brain." In fact, says Bourne, the scientist was studying the optical nerve system, a project that "might eventually help blind people to see." A voice-over explaining that, he contends, "would make all the difference." Wiseman is adamant in his belief that his films tell the truth without narration. Dr. Bourne...
...melancholy ironist and culture critic who foreshadowed his grandnephew's own tussles with cynicism and faith. Aldous was a natural-born two-culture man at exactly the time when the wedges of agnosticism and technological specialization had just driven those cultures apart. He would probably have been a scientist like his brother Julian had not an eye infection at age 16 permanently and severely impaired his vision. "I am," he wrote, "to a considerable extent a function of defective eyesight." Yet he managed to function with enormous discipline, teaching himself to read Braille?just in case?and slowly poring over...