Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...View to a Kill" and "Girls on Film." In this song, the band pays hommage to their eponoymus roots--the '60s cult classic Barbarella which featured a seminude Jane Fonda (Barbarella) trapsing across galaxies in her fur-lined spaceship, trying to save the universe from the clutches of mad scientist Duran Duran. "Electric Barbarella" is the only song on the album in which the boys allow us to see the nonsensical verbiage which was smattered across their earlier records. Lines like, "Major Domo/Plastic Como/Barbarella" should say it all. This is pure unadulterated Duran-ness...
Tapping into the post-Cold War paranoia of nuclear arms falling into unknown hands, this wellpaced but predictable action/suspense thriller doesn't ever stir a step beyond the demands of its genre. Nicole Kidman and George Clooney deliver competent if unremarkable performances as the nuclear scientist and independent-minded military officer who team up to save the world from the self-destructive tendencies of a Harvard-graduated loony...
...because organic matter alone does not provide enough evidence of life, Thomas B. McCord, planetary scientist and co-investigator on the Galileo space-craft instrument team, is researching Europa to learn more about the moon...
LONDON: So you're a mad scientist. You want your experiments to scare people the world over, but your budget is minuscule. Well, you could do a lot worse than cloning headless tadpoles...
...says, "I still have the same job at the Federal Reserve Board. I think that I have fallen into the trap of letting my work expand to fit the available time." Irene Marie Leary just decided to attend law school while continuing full-time work for Texas Instruments. Computer scientist Elaine Lipshutz Best says, "I imagine it seems odd to people who remember me that I am working at Los Alamos National Lab. I haven't always felt comfortable there, but I've always managed to find projects--solar energy, earthquake modeling, biomedical applications--that I was glad to contribute...