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...Rightly or wrongly, that was portrayed by the news media as tied into the greenhouse effect," Stavins says. When NASA scientist James Hanson testified before Congress in June, 1988, that the ecological phenomenon was at the root of the hot weather, the issue of global warming burst into the mainstream media...
With the arrival of James Bryant Conant to the presidency, a scientist who disliked the College's leisurely pace, Harvard began to move away from Lowell's ideals. Conant admired the intense, research-oriented German colleges, and introduced the "up or out" system, which gave junior faculty approximately eight years before they were either tenured or dismissed. The system has existed ever since...
When he was elected to the Senate in 1980, Quayle told political scientist Richard Fenno, "I know one committee I don't want -- Judiciary. They are going to be dealing with all those issues like abortion, busing, voting rights, prayer. I'm not interested in those issues, and I want to stay as far away from them as I can." Yet Quayle was not raised among people who shied from extremes. He is the coeval of the cold war: the year of his birth, 1947, also gave us the CIA, the Attorney General's list of subversives and the internal...
...suggested that marijuana be decriminalized, a view too radical to be repeated before his constituents. Dan Coats, who now holds Quayle's Senate seat, is a born-again Christian who as Quayle's aide helped him win votes from the religious right; but Richard Fenno, the political scientist who observed his 1980 race, noticed that Quayle kept his commitments to a minimum in this part of his campaign. In the Senate, Quayle avoided the social issues and sought expertise in defense, specializing in SDI. His staff emphasizes the way he could cooperate "even with Teddy Kennedy" to pass...
...physicists, who will have no trouble finding jobs even if the SSC construction were to stop suddenly, the lure of the giant collider is irresistible. In fact, the leaders of the 500-scientist teams that will eventually run the SSC's enormous detector experiments are already beginning to organize. One such collaboration is being formed by Ting. Politically shrewd, he has wooed physicists from a number of weapons laboratories and Southeastern universities, which until now have not been powers in the field of particle physics. Observers expect he will run the experiment in the strictly hierarchical fashion he has displayed...