Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Freshman year, I came thinking I was going to be a scientist," Franken says. "But then I had a crisis when I realized that I didn't like science...
...founded the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals in an attempt to reach out to some of the 87% of the population, including most of the poor, who are Muslim. His religious supporters hope he will spread their dream of Islamic ascendancy for Indonesia. Yet he is a highly educated scientist and dedicated believer in the power of technology. He studied aeronautical engineering in Germany and worked his way up to a vice presidency at the aircraft makers Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm before Suharto personally called him home in 1974 to help Indonesia establish an industrial base. For 20 years he served...
...some analysts see the nuclear tests as a gesture to B.J.P. hard-liners angry at Vajpayee for yielding on too many of the core issues on the Hindu nationalist agenda. "The party hawks wanted to extract their pound of flesh on the nuclear issue," says Imtiaz Ahmad, a political scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. "They felt too many other concessions were being made by Vajpayee...
...care lavished on re-creating the monster, the new plot is somewhat less revolutionary. As in 1954, Godzilla is the spawn of nuclear tests in the Pacific, and this time he makes his way quickly to New York City. Matthew Broderick plays an American scientist, Dr. Nick Tatopoulos (a nod to the new creator); Jean Reno is a mysterious agent for the French; Maria Pitillo is a newscaster wannabe; and Hank Azaria is a TV cameraman. Together they battle not just Godzilla but a teeming snake pit of little Godzillas. Though referred to as "he," the monster belongs to transgender...
...edges of postindustrial America. His technique is narrative journalism (formerly New Journalism, or later, Literary Journalism)--reportage as documentary storytelling. In Finnegan, the dazzling special effects of such founding fathers as Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer have given way to an admirable transparency. The author-observer, like a good scientist in nature, all but vanishes. Finnegan fleetingly appears from time to time, only as a kind of bemused white-bread oddity wearing burgundy Rockport shoes, set down for a while among black dope dealers in New Haven, Conn.; or Chicano gangbangers in the Yakima Valley of Washington State; or piney...