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...tend toward threats and harassment rather than outright violence. But its members, like most of the 15,000 or so extremists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, tend to believe that any act, including murder, is justified if it thwarts the peace process. Says University of Pennsylvania political scientist Ian Lustick, an expert on Jewish fundamentalism: "It's the equivalent of the right-wing milieu that led to the Oklahoma City bombing." That event shook Americans out of the complacent notion that it couldn't happen here; now Israelis too have an even deeper understanding of their vulnerability...
...RECIPE FOR PRESIDENTIAL RE-ELECTION used to be simple: keep employment high and prices low. Indeed, as of the early 1980s, the noted political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset was touting this formula as a potent predictor of electoral outcomes. Just add up the unemployment and inflation rates, he said. If this "misery index" was below 10, thumbs up for the incumbent. If above 10, then it was time to pen the memoirs...
...Lewis is a computer scientist, and Knowles is a scientist and Rudenstine is an English professor. They are tremendous administrators, but they are not people who know a lot about public service," McCarthy said...
John F. Codington, an associate professor of biological chemistry and molecular, pharmacology and a senior scientist at the Harvard affiliated Boston Biomedical Research Institute, says Boston Biomed has granted the biotechnology company Epigen the commercial right to use the antigens and antibodies that he developed and the right to prepare a diagnostic test he developed for commercialization...
...else in the world. Among them: giant tortoises, Galapagos penguins, waved albatrosses, flightless cormorants, Galapagos fur seals, seagoing iguanas, three types of rice rat, Galapagos bats--and 13 species of Darwin's finch, whose variously shaped beaks, perfectly adapted for the foods they subsist on, were used by the scientist to illustrate his theory of evolution...