Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mexico desert, dropped out of high school to take up music composition and eventually drifted into video games, earning a reputation as a prodigious hacker. Amiable and rotund, he sports shoulder-length dreadlocks that make him look more like a Rastafarian reggae singer than a computer scientist...
Author John Mearsheimer, a University of Chicago political scientist, argues that Europe enjoyed 45 years of durable if chilly peace precisely because it was divided into two camps; the U.S. and the Soviet Union have kept not only each other in check but their allies as well. For Mearsheimer and other academic experts on war and peace, two is a lucky, even magic, number. As he puts it in social-sciencese, "a bipolar system has only one dyad across which war might break out." In other words, if nations are going to square off against one another, better they...
...socialist regimes many famous physicists or natural scientists have been involved in human rights because science always requires independent thought. Even if you are an important man and you say something, nobody just believes it. If a scientist submits a paper to a journal, it goes to a referee for comments. But in the Communist Party they always say they are correct. This is very difficult to reconcile with the scientific approach...
...test, which employs a form of learning made famous by Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov, identified 19 of 20 people who had been diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's, said Diana Woodruff-Pak. But it also put seven of 20 healthy subjects in the same category, an error rate that must be reduced, she said...
...constructing genetic mutants, "Goodarzi says. The budding scientist is eager to explain his work in detail, frequently using lingo that few but he and the professor can understand. "It's pretty complicated," he shyly acknowledges...