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...problem": "I have the unfortunate capability of getting interested in whatever I do, so I sometimes enjoy a number of the administrative issues." He says that wrestling with the exact shape of the new student government was a nuisance, but adds, "On the other hand, as a political scientist, all the issues involved in the student government were issues that in different contexts I worry about professionally...
That justification didn't sway Dr. Mark Glier, a great scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a leading opponent of the project. "Even in the unlikely chance that a plane crashes into a laboratory or a terrorist group acquires the newly-cloned strain and puts it into a city's water supply, the results could be more of a disaster than the atomic bomb...
...beyond our means to do so." He may have a point. Opponents voice philosophical and practical objections. Adoption of the amendment, they say, would amount to writing into the Constitution a hotly disputed economic theory, one that posits budget deficits as the root of all fiscal evil. Asserts Political Scientist Norman Ornstein of Catholic University: "The Constitution is not supposed to make economic policy." Some 80 economists, led by Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, have signed an open letter to members of Congress contending that the amendment would rob the Government of needed flexibility in adjusting spending and tax plans. There...
That chilling prospect is one of the possibilities foreseen in Global Insecurity: A Strategy for Energy & Economic Renewal (Houghton Mifflin; 427 pages; $15.95), a sometimes frightening, but still generally hopeful, survey of the energy outlook published last week. The book, which is edited by Political Scientist Daniel Yergin of Harvard University and Martin Hillenbrand, director of the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs in Paris, was prepared during the past four years by a group of mostly academic contributors from the U.S., Western Europe and Japan. They included: Teruyasu Murakami, a senior consultant at the Nomura Research Institute in Japan...
...announcing the decision, President Bok praised Hubel as "an outstanding scientist whose work is brilliant "His research" has resulted in disease prevention and new treatments for children," Bok added...