Word: scientists
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...FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, GOT OUT of the cable-television business after running up $235 million in losses over seven years. Shutdown costs -- including severance packages for the 400 employees of Monitor Television who were laid off -- will run another $45 million. While church officials search for a buyer for the cable operation, the Monitor Channel will broadcast reruns. The channel managed to attract about 4 million subscribers before its demise, a bantamweight entry in the cable ring compared with the likes of the Discovery Channel, which has upwards of 57 million homes...
...director of communications at the GE research anddevelopment center in Schenectady, N.Y. "It shouldbe noted that the scientific foundation for the'isotope effect' was established byothers--including predictions about its impact ondiamonds--well before he came on to the scene. Theinitial paper in the field was published by aSoviet scientist...
Though German authorities matched the remains to Mengele's medical and dental records in 1985, they were not 100% convinced until last week. British scientist Alec Jeffreys compared DNA from the exhumed bones with DNA from Mengele's living son Rolf Jenckel and pronounced them a match. The Israelis said they were satisfied. The genetic testing might have happened sooner, but Jenckel refused to cooperate until a German prosecutor threatened to dig up other deceased Mengeles for tissue samples...
...Flowers vastly outnumber those who have any idea that Clinton has put forth a highly detailed program on taxes and the economy, let alone those who have any notion of what his program contains. There is some truth to this, but given public attitudes, it is largely inevitable. Political scientist James David Barber of Duke University observes that many voters say to themselves, "I don't really know what the deficit means. Ido know what adultery means...
...self-confidence that it can be something more than a poverty-stricken backwater. "The state is far better off than before he came along," says Max Howell, who is retiring after 42 years in the Arkansas senate. "He has negotiated the most meaningful gains that anyone could have." Political scientist David England at Arkansas State University agrees: "He has been as effective as any Governor could be in Arkansas," partly because Clinton has shown a shrewd sense of what reforms were attainable and concentrated on them. Says England: "He has taken on only what he thought was possible. Pushing...