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...Congress is relatively small. "If you can design a safe seat for a member of your party, even if he?s a rookie, he?ll have all the perks and powers of the office behind him to be around for a long time," says Mark Rush a political scientist at Washington and Lee University. Incumbents are rarely voted out of office; the only way many of them ever leave is by retiring or dying. So if the congressional lines for a district are drawn in a way that concentrates more voters from one party, the incumbent from that party...
...swimmers than great whites and not as good at surprise. Human victims often see the shark before it closes in to attack. But tigers are persistent. "If you are bitten by a tiger, you have a good chance of being chewed up. They come back," says John McCosker, a scientist at the California Academy of Sciences...
Richardson is a political scientist specializing in international terrorism, international relations theory, and British foreign and defense policy...
...helping to revolutionize the face of television advertising, Brown Williams isn't much of a channel surfer. Maybe it's because he spent 23 years tinkering with TVs as a leading scientist at RCA Labs. But Williams, 60, has watched enough TV to see its future. More channels are competing for viewers' short attention spans, and the 30-second spot is losing its grip--so advertisers need a new way to get their messages across...
...FERTILITY CLINICS During in-vitro fertilization, clinics routinely fuse more than one egg with sperm. That way, if implanting a fertilized egg doesn't work the first time, they can try again. This practice has left thousands of unwanted embryos stored in clinic freezers. James Thomson, left, the first scientist to establish a human stem-cell line, used such embryos...