Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...within that revolution" everywhere. Mr. Ghate, a rough-edged slum dweller and organizer for Shiv Sena, a violent Hindu chauvinist group, displays an inspired streak of social activism and complains in earnest, and in English, about the "absence of civic sense" in his neighborhood. Subramaniam is a Brahman and scientist whose grandfather was a Hindu priest, once the flamekeepers of reactionary Hindu society. But the next generation of Brahmans, like Subramaniam's father, led India's political- reform movements, and now Subramaniam's own generation, the most accomplished and Westernized to date, is the ironic, not entirely unhappy victim...
Other Germans disagree. "You cannot build a new start on a lie," says Barbel Bohley, a leading civil rights activist from Eastern Germany. She warns of the possibility of a "corruptible parliament with members susceptible to blackmail" for their Stasi past. Says Karl-Dietrich Bracher, a political scientist at the University of Bonn: "If we were to have a general amnesty, there would be a general disgust with politics. Some kind of purification is necessary...
...want to do this." While the racial card appeals to some blue-collar and rural whites, it obviously offends many blacks. It also conflicts with the two-year effort by Bush and the departing G.O.P. chairman, Lee Atwater, to woo black voters. Further, the moderate faction agrees with political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, who says that "some upscale white suburban voters can easily be repulsed by the Helms approach...
...boozy Barley Blair (Sean Connery), a fringe English publisher. With the help of a Soviet citizen named Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer), he is supposed to spirit out of the U.S.S.R. a manuscript by a dissident scientist that supposedly has large strategic implications for the West -- or at least the portion of it that is loath to give up the cold war habit of mind. The two operatives naturally fall in love, and since old Barley's interest in geopolitics is minimal at best, his primary goal switches from smuggling documents to protecting his lady...
...would be naive for me to say that the average working scientist has a broad societal perspective about his or her work. People go into science because they are inquisitive and because they believe that knowing more about our world will improve it. Our country has benefited enormously from the support of much unfocused basic research because in totally unexpected ways it has provided insights into medical problems that have been of enormous significance...