Word: scientists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jacques Baute, a French nuclear-weapons scientist, heads the separate team that searches out nukes. He can field more than 15 IAEA professionals from 11 countries, with possible help from 15 outside experts, who monitor all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle by looking for 40 specific components and analyzing soil and water samples, as well as checking on dual technologies, import-export controls and nuclear smuggling...
...haven't defeated the weapon. You've caused it to deploy." STEVE RAMBERG, chief scientist at the Office of Naval Research, on the dangers of bombing Iraq's chemical and biological weapons stockpiles...
...captivity led his handlers to release him off the coast of Iceland in July. Now, however, he has turned up in Norway, seeking adoration and herring from Homo sapiens, around whom he seems most comfortable. Some Norwegian salmon fishers complained that Keiko was scaring off their catch, and one scientist suggested he be killed for his own good. Norwegian officials offered last week to give Keiko his own fjord, where he can help lure tourists and retire in peace--thereby avoiding the self-destructive path often taken by child stars...
...pollster Manfred Gullner. But some political analysts worried that by opposing Bush, Schroder was damaging long-term relations with Washington. "Germany is dividing Europe, and for the first time in 50 years a German government has become anti-American in both style and substance," said Christian Hacke, a political scientist at Bonn University. "This is a catastrophe...
FIRED. STEVEN HATFILL, 48, former Army biodefense scientist under scrutiny by the FBI in connection with anthrax-laced letters that killed five people last fall; from his position as associate director of the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training at Louisiana State University. Hatfill said L.S.U. gave no explanation for the firing, but the dismissal followed a Justice Department request that the school refrain from using Hatfill on any projects funded by Justice; his boss, Stephen L. Guillot, was fired as well. Hatfill has repeatedly maintained his innocence...