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Friends of the late Andrei Sakharov held a memorial service for the Nobel laureate earlier this week at Harvard, praising the scientist and humanist for a lifetime that valued ideas above fame...
...Professor Emeritus Herman Feshbach attempted to put some of Sakharov's accomplishments in perspective. He compared Sakharov to the biblical Moses and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Sakharov was "unique in world history as a great scientist, humanitarian, developer of the atom bomb, and human being," Fesbach said...
Combined with the historical record and the undeniable persistence of racial discrimination, those facts make it easy for blacks to conclude that someone is plotting their extinction. But, as Harvard political scientist Martin Kilson points out, it is "a long way from believing some whites would like to - exterminate blacks to believing they are capable of doing so." Conspiracy theories insult blacks by suggesting that they are hapless victims powerless to resist a racist scheme. They imply that the African Americans who have become mayors and police chiefs in dozens of cities are either willing participants in the plot...
...political scientist. But I have seen people in shock before. Never before have I seen a whole city so numbed -- not Washington in the days after it was burned in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, not New York City after the blackout, not even the Capital after the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
There are fewer than 300 climatologists in this country, only some of whom concern themselves with global warming and computer modeling. Each scientist in the field has his or her own estimate as to the extent of the change in the future. All of them, however, agree that the unprecedented global experiment we have created is highly dangerous...