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American University political scientist James Thurber, author of the forthcoming book Remaking Congress, calls politics in the information age "hyperpluralism." He remembers sitting in congressional hearings for the 1986 tax-reform law as lobbyists watched the proceedings with cellular phones at the ready. "They started dialing the instant anyone in that room even thought about changing a tax break." Their calls alerted interested parties and brought a deluge of protest borne by phone, letter or fax. "There is no buffer allowing Representatives to think about what's going on," Thurber says. "In the old days you had a few months...
...much of its success to playing up white resentments. Moreover, black political clout in Congress has plummeted, some key civil rights groups are in disarray, and some fear Bill Clinton may lurch to the right in a desperate re-election strategy. As Ronald Walters, a Howard University political scientist puts it, "We're on the defensive across the board...
...areas, was not always easy; potential donors were often afraid to cooperate, or raised religious taboos. On one occasion, when Cavalli-Sforza was taking blood samples from schoolchildren in a rural region of the Central African Republic, he was confronted by an angry farmer brandishing an ax. Recalls the scientist: "I remember him saying, 'If you take the blood of the children, I'll take yours.' He was worried that we might want to do some magic with the blood...
Last year Jacob won an award from the American Geophysical Union as the best scientist younger than...
McElroy, who was on the search committee that selected Jacob, said that Jacob is "the best young scientist in the world in what he works...