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...Coleman-Adebayo, an MIT-trained political scientist who had held a string of impressive jobs at the United Nations and World Wildlife Fund, her first two years at the EPA during the administration of Bush the Elder were like laboring on a "21st-century plantation." During her earliest days on the job, "I got a very clear sense that I wasn't welcome," she recalls. Just how unwelcome became clear two years later on the eve of Bill Clinton's inaugural. A senior EPA executive told her that she could attend a routine staff meeting only because "we consider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the EPA Was Made to Clean Up Its Own Stain — Racism | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

Robert Morris, a retired cryptographer who was chief scientist for the National Security Agency, said although Rabin's method does make code-breaking more difficult, code-breakers will simply find another way to eavesdrop on the message...

Author: By Sumi A. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Unbreakable Code Discovered | 2/21/2001 | See Source »

...center of controversy are Congregants of Church of Christ, Scientist, along with members of other, smaller sects, including the Followers of Christ Church and the General Assembly and Church of the First Born. All are staunchly opposed to medical intervention in the case of illness, preferring instead to depend upon prayer to do the healing. Their devotion to what they call "God's will" has, according to their critics, led to the deaths of more than 172 children between 1975 and 1995 - all because their parents refused to seek medical treatment for their children's illnesses. According to autopsy reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom of Religion or State-Sanctioned Child Abuse? | 2/21/2001 | See Source »

...answer lies in the ambiguity of the SCOTUS ruling: The Justices do not provide a compelling ruling for law enforcement agents looking for a prosecutorial green light. And for the rest of the answer we turn to the wonderful world of political action committees. The Church of Christ, Scientist, whose members are fiercely opposed to medical intervention, is a powerful voice on Capitol Hill as well as in local town halls; the church's lobbying efforts have kept reforms at bay in most states for years. And even for the reform-minded, there are public relations hurdles to overcome; secular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom of Religion or State-Sanctioned Child Abuse? | 2/21/2001 | See Source »

...Hopkins believes our conclusions about the relative performance of senior men and women biologists at MIT are wrong, I challenge her to present (publicly) a superior methodology and the resulting data. This is precisely the way a scientist who challenges the work of others is expected to proceed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/20/2001 | See Source »

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