Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...publishing oxymoron--a prodigy who published her first essay in St. Nicholas Magazine at age 11, and a late bloomer who found success as a writer only in her 40s. Through letters and interviews Lear reconstructs an early life in which Carson had to defer dreams of becoming a scientist in order to help support her family following the failed schemes of an ineffectual father and tragedies that befell hapless siblings. While she toiled as an editor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, she continually and futilely proposed pieces to magazines, ranging from the Atlantic to the Reader...
...conducted in the U.S.--rules that could delay any study by at least two years. Although the volunteers say they might proceed without the blessings of the National Institutes of Health and the FDA, Desrosiers insists he will not make his specially altered HIV strains available to any scientist who does not have government approval...
...promising scientist and talented athlete, Krueger rowed the first-year heavyweight crew team and aspired to be an aerospace engineer...
Other states faced with recent Pfiesteria outbreaks have been less aggressive than Maryland. When 14 million fish died in North Carolina in 1995, some state officials publicly mocked the scientist who discovered the bacteria, and the state has resisted adopting major reforms. Across the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia is seeing lesion rates as high as 75% in its Rappahannock River but has decided to keep it open. Glendening says each state must make its own decisions, but that for Maryland the recent outbreak requires stern action. "The Chesapeake Bay is a fundamental part of what Maryland is," he says...
...terrorist. Every nation wants to defuse the bomb since the terrorist says he will use it to blow up the United Nations. But in Michael Schiffer's script the task is pretty much left to a cowboy and a lady: U.S. Army Colonel Tom Devoe (George Clooney) and nuclear scientist Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman). They race around the globe (the film was shot in 10 countries), kill villains, crash cars and tap on computers...