Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This courtly man doesn't stay depressed for long, though. He has seen too much. Life, to him, is an endless search, one long lesson. He is proof of the notion that every artist is a scientist, obsessed with discovering how things and people work. His eyes go electric as he skims the subjects of his forthcoming photography book. "I've got a real lot of beautiful industrial landscapes. And I'm real interested in dental hygiene, so I'm going to have a chapter on that. Maybe something on fictitious archaeology: I'd like to bury some things, then...
...this canny naivete, this promiscuous curiosity, to every aspect of his life and work. It could be a trait bred from childhood -- a sylvan youth of eagle-scout badges and family camping trips, spent amid the Pacific Northwest trees that today loom over Twin Peaks. "My father was a scientist for the Forest Service," Lynch says. "He would drive me through the woods in his green Forest Service truck, over dirt roads, through the most beautiful forests where the trees are very tall and shafts of sunlight come down and in the mountain streams the rainbow trout leap...
...African States, which had organized the peacekeeping force, asked troops to intercede in the evacuation of Doe loyalists who had barricaded themselves inside the presidential mansion. Two weeks ago, ECOWAS representatives met in Ghana to select an interim government for Liberia, to be led by Amos Sawyer, a political scientist who in 1984 drafted the country's present constitution. Both Nimley and Johnson have indicated their willingness to turn power over to Sawyer once he has been installed in Monrovia...
...thousands of hours of entertainment each year. The stress on new and different, moreover, can lead to the hyping of bogus breakthroughs. Fox's new sitcom True Colors, for example, is the first to focus on a racially mixed family, while CBS's E.A.R.T.H. Force pits a team of scientist-crime fighters against a new foe: environmental villains. But no one should mistake these shows for anything but warmed-over variations on All in the Family and Mission: Impossible. The most audacious hits of the past few seasons -- thirtysomething, The Wonder Years, The Simpsons -- did not invent new genres...
...both a scientist and a physician. Does seeing patients affect your research...