Word: scientists
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...front of them. Such self-control would be unusual for teens in any case; it's even more impressive considering that the speaker is a theoretical astrophysicist. Stephen Hawking has a few advantages, though. For one, the 51-year-old Cambridge University professor is probably the best-known scientist in the world. For another, Hawking is in a wheelchair too, the victim of a degenerative nerve disease that has left him as paralyzed as his youthful audience...
Sources -- GOOD: AP; Neurosurgery; AP. BAD: Journal of the American Medical Association; New England Journal of Medicine; Science News; New Scientist...
...National Institutes of Health scientist Dean Hamer reported that he and his colleagues had isolated a group of genes more prevalent in homosexuals than in the rest of the population. Immediately following the announcement, the words "gay genes" were transformed from figments of imagination to somewhat fuzzy reality. The sizzling controversy of homosexuality had become, for many, a purely scientific issue...
That's the antiestablishment view of Hoeg's heroine, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her mother, a hunter and tracker, and the comfortable wealth of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Smilla knows both science and snow, but she is too rebellious to work regularly for the ruling Danes. She is at loose ends in Copenhagen when a six-year-old Eskimo boy she has befriended slips from the snowy roof of their apartment house and is killed. An accident, of course; but the boy, Smilla knows, wouldn't normally have been...
...Many young Ibo men, traditionally among the best educated in the country, are abandoning college to pursue more lucrative professions like drug smuggling. "The result is a tremendous loss of talent that Nigeria cannot afford if it is to compete in the modern world," says Claude Ake, a political scientist at the University of Port Harcourt...