Word: scientists
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There was no morning call from Stockholm; Barbara McClintock does not have a phone. Instead, the 81-year-old geneticist learned the news by radio. "Oh, dear," she is said to have murmured. And having pronounced that judgment, the diminutive (5-ft., 100-lb.) scientist donned her usual attire-baggy dungarees, a man-tailored shirt and sturdy oxfords-and stepped out for her usual morning walk through the woods near Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island. As usual, she gathered walnuts along the way. Winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine seemed no reason to alter her schedule...
...says a Harvard scientist, who offers an explanation
...this against Brainstorm: it bears no sign of a highly mobilized imagination at work. Wood's death cannot be blamed. Her role as the estranged wife of a research scientist appears to have been intrinsically sketchy and secondary; she is present on the relatively few occasions when the film seems to require her. The problem lies with the scientist and his research...
...father was a schoolteacher, his mother a suffragist, and the Cornish village of his childhood comfortable and insular. His parents wanted him to become a scientist, but after two years at Oxford he decided to study English literature instead. After graduation he held a succession of temporary jobs, including one with a provincial theater company, published a volume of poems when he was 23, and enlisted in the Royal Navy at the onset of World War II. In his early 30s, Golding came of age. "One had one's nose rubbed in the human condition," he recalls. He witnessed...
...PUBLIC SCHOOLS are America's "great social laboratory," as Columbia's Diane Ravitch says in Psychology Today this month, then who has been the mad scientist? Last spring, the media and the Presidential Education Commission ignited the current debate on public schools. Since then, every politician along the rubber-chicken speech circuit has thrown in their own proposals: raise teachers' pay, raise good teachers' pay; spend more federal money, give more local control; return to basics, advance to computers. But while debate has raged nationwide, local communities hold many of the answers to education problems...