Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...steel plant outside Rio de Janeiro and at the main Ford auto factory near Sao Paulo. Now Collor must scramble to reaffirm his popular mandate, while at the same time staving off public demands to push his rigorous program off track. Can he do it? Warns Brazilian political scientist Walter de Goes: "The speciality of this economic team is detonating bombs, not picking up the pieces...
...They know life when they see it. That is what is so disturbing about a good computer simulation. Take Craig Reynolds' flocking birds. By specifying a couple of simple rules -- keep a few wings' distance from your neighbors, try to fly as fast as they do -- Reynolds, a computer scientist at Symbolics, Inc., got bird-shaped objects on a screen to exhibit a flocking behavior that is absolutely convincing. The birds are artificial, but the flocking is real...
...their wearier metaphors, commentators often talk of a politician's stock rising or falling during a campaign; at the Iowa City campus of the University of Iowa, politicians' stocks are actually rising and falling. Four faculty members -- three economists and a political scientist -- have opened a computer-driven stock market in which the only two issues available are Democratic Senator Tom Harkin and his Republican challenger Tom Tauke. (Because the university draws students from neighboring Illinois, shares in Paul Simon and his G.O.P. opponent Lynn Martin will soon be available.) Investors can buy a bundled issue, a minimum...
...ironic sense of humor pervades the book. He writes that one man makes a poor woman's "life a fairy tale...but a grim one." He writes that "justice triumph--sometimes." Of the retired scientist who scrutinizes the Bible for evidence that the world has been visited by extraterrestrials, he writes, "To say I am skeptical would be putting it mildly...
Julian Sands (Room With a View) plays Dr. James Atherton, a world reknowned scientist who leads the expedition responsible for bringing the killer spider into the United States. Atherton is completely single-minded in his pursuit of knowledge, exhibiting no fear of the deadly spiders, mocking Jenning's almost hysterical fear of them...