Word: scientists
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...seems to me that the life and accomplishments of scientist Carl Sagan deserved much more than the few inches you allotted to the news of his death [MILESTONES, Dec. 30-Jan. 6]. You have trivialized the passing of this intellectual giant, who will be greatly missed by his colleagues and admirers. Shame on you! IDA J. IPE Youngstown, Ohio...
...some people TV and the Internet are just wastes of time. For DIANA GABALDON they were the touchstones of a whole new career. Having gained a Ph.D. in ecology and worked for 12 years as a scientist, Gabaldon, inspired by an episode of Dr. Who (the British Star Trek), started writing what she calls "chunks" about time travel, ancient Scotland and sex. "I posted some of it on CompuServe to win an argument," says Gabaldon. "And people said, 'This is wonderful. What is it?' And I said, 'I don't know.' "Eight years later, she's still writing chunks, which...
Although he never had a career in physics or engineering, Judge's training serves him well, for it left him with a scientist's sense of the exact. If Beavis and Butt-head seem unwavering in their testosterone-fueled stupidity, it is because their creator has been meticulous in executing his vision for them. Animators who first come to work on the show are given a long list of dos and don'ts. Judge insists that none of the characters move in any manner suggesting the effete. After rendering the image of a peripheral character shutting a car trunk...
...computer scientist, Seltzer writes software (most of which is given away for free on the World Wide Web) and writes papers about the lessons learned from writing the software...
DIED. CARL SAGAN, 62, scientist and eloquent popularizer of astronomy whose lectures, books and TV appearances brought the majesty of the universe to ordinary earthlings; of pneumonia after a two-year battle with bone-marrow disease; in Seattle. Sagan's mantra of "billions and billions" of stars from his award-winning 1980 PBS series Cosmos became both the object of parody and popular shorthand for the vastness of the universe. The show attracted a global audience of more than 500 million people in 60 countries. A prolific writer, Sagan won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for The Dragons of Eden...