Word: scientists
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...Newton's time, people with a limited education and some numerical ability could understand all of the mathematics in existence. With time, the amount of information exploded, and people began encountering less and less of all the information in the world. We have become so specialized that each scientist has his or her own vocabulary, and a politician's jargon is different from a lawyer's. Now the game of chess has also been placed beyond one person's reach...
...Lundman was raised in a Christian Scientist family. One of the fundamental precepts of the Christian Scientist church is a reliance on prayer to heal illness to the absolute exclusion of conventional medical care. Therefore, when Ian complained of stomach pains, his family, in strict compliance with and full faith in the proscriptions of the Church, began to pray...
...practitioners who sat by Ian's bed to court. A Minnesota state jury held these four responsible for Ian's death and awarded Ian's father $1.5 million for civil damages, the first time an award was obtained for the death of a child due to Christian Scientist methods, according to Michael McConnell, a University of Chicago law professor quoted in the New York Times on January...
...eight candidates include J. Michael Bishop, a scientist at the University of California at San Francisco who earned his M.D. from Harvard in 1962; Doris Kearns Goodwin, a historian and political commentator who received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968; and Sandra Ohrn Moose, senior vice president of The Boston Consulting Group, who also received a Ph.D. from Harvard...
Clearly, taking a simple chemical supplement is not the same as eating a vegetable. Scientist suspect there are other natural ingredients that work with the vitamins to promote health. But whether this news will put an end to the beta-carotene craze remains to be seen. The studies showed no harm in taking lower doses (3 mg) of the supplement, and the vitamin industry was quick to exploit that opening, suggesting that taking beta carotene might still be beneficial for nonsmokers. Yet even die-hard pill takers have to agree that the safest and cheapest form of prevention...