Word: scientists
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...reached the frontiers of research through her work on the relay of chemical messages within cells. She says she aims to become a physician and a scientist...
Beginning in the '70s, women began to elbow their way into the field and develop serious alternatives to the old, male-centered theory of human evolution. It shouldn't matter, of course, what sex the scientist is, but women had their own reasons for being suspicious of the dominant paradigm. The first revisionist blow came in the mid-'70s, when anthropologists Adrienne Zihlman and Nancy Tanner pointed out that among surviving "hunting" peoples, most of the community's calories--up to 70%--come from plant food patiently gathered by women, not meat heroically captured by men. The evidence for Stone...
...suit that dances to Caribbean rhythms, an ambitious television news reporter who can't leave his car without getting his jacket stuck in the door, a Martian whose idea of a good time is eating about 30,000 gallons of ice cream (give or take a few) and a scientist who examines mucous-like substances by tasting them? My Favorite Martian, an entertaining Disney concoction whose lively physical comedy and occasionally amusing one-liners barely compensate for a weak plot line and nauseatingly cliched subtext...
...doesn't take a rocket scientist to figureout that guards in the Houses are already in thecommunity," Riley admits...
Decades of police abuse have completely destroyed inner-city residents' confidence in the criminal-justice system, argues Elijah Anderson, a social scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, in his forthcoming book, Code of the Streets: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City. The result is an every-man-a-vigilante mentality that makes violence inevitable. "Even decent people in inner-city neighborhoods are so distrustful of the police that they feel they have no choice but to take matters of personal defense into their own hands," says Anderson. "Instead of relying on the police to protect them...