Word: scientists
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...good many are trying to remedy that state of mutual isolation. Some members of the United Church of Christ, for example, invited the Soviets to send a group of visitors on a tour of New England. Last April came a newspaper editor, a Russian Orthodox bishop, a scientist and six others, who stayed in rural homes and ate pot-luck dinners. "It was the first time many of these people had ever done anything like this," says Elizabeth Gardner, who helped organize the tour and whose husband Clint was finishing an exchange visit to the Soviet Union in December...
...Bureau of State Security visited Israel." There is no mention of the nature of the visit: Louis also weaves a three-paragraph spy novel about Israeli involvement in a nuclear test explosion off the coast of South Africa. Similarly, his tone piece of evidence is that an Israeli nuclear scientist visited Israel on the day following the explosion. Once again, no specifics about the nature of the visit. Such resort to innuendo and bold-faced assertions not only belies the weakness of his argument but is also downright sleazy. By Louis' logic, if a man visits a woman after...
...trees), and vivid turns of phrase (the black spruce needles that grow all around the twig "like the hair on the tail of an angry cat"). Borland's concern for conservation is all the more effective for its understatement, as when he quietly notes that the scientist who measured the age of a California bristlecone pine at approximately 5,000 years cut it down in the process, thus destroying "the oldest living thing on earth, so far as we know at this time...
...important factor is considering a scientist for the deanship is that the job would mean dealing his career in research, given the breakneck development of scientific discoveries today. For this reason, professor's say, a scientist would probably the more length than a humanist to put aside his academic career for five to 10 years to take on the deanship...
There is a famous anecdote about the fast Harvard scientist in hold a trip administrative position--James B. Conant '14, president from 1933 to 1953--that some say illustrates the reluctance of some in the Harvard community to see scientists in high positions...