Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...religion, and that his solution to the mind-brain problem has broken down the barrier between the two. And if anyone could link science and ethics, Sperry, an excellent researcher who cares deeply about ethical questions, would be the man. Sperry is also the only Nobel prize-winning scientist to have majored in English at college...
...Carnegie-Mellon. Carnegie-Mellon is perhaps the pre-eminent computer school in the nation. It has more terminals available to students, a more structured computer curriculum, and a number of illustrious experts, such as Herbert Simon, Allen Newell and Raj Reddy, on its faculty. Says Carnegie-Mellon Research Scientist Ronald Cole: "C.M.U. is definitely the most intense computer environment...
...virtually turned over the Pentagon's arms-control portfolio to Perle); if confirmed, Kenneth Adelman, the Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations, will be the least qualified director in the 21-year history of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He is a political scientist whose main prior experience was as an aide to then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and as a strategic analyst at SRI International, a private think tank...
...kind of effect that rapid technological advancement can have on a society has been fodder for many fantasies--from Big Brother's totalitarian regime to Woody Allen's scientist doctors cloning a man from his nose. But most authors and directors and sociologists and philosophers start from the premise that the society thus transformed was ready for progress to begin with. Dr. Seymour Gray, an American physician appointed to head a brand-new hospital in Saudi Arabia, had the opportunity to see how much more wrenching such advancement can be when a country moves from a primitive nomadic culture...
...leaders of ruling Communist parties did little more than pay lip service to Marx. Speaking under an enormous portrait of the man, Chinese Party Secretary Hu Yaobang praised Marx as "the most outstanding revolutionary and scientist in human history," then devoted the rest of his 90-minute address to promoting Peking's pragmatic approach to reform. Soviet Party Chief Yuri Andropov contributed an anniversary article to the journal Kommunist last month, lauding Marx as "a great practical revolutionary." His own views on the need for workers to be thrifty and responsible had a curiously capitalist ring. Maverick Rumania marked...