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Where does Snow-a technical administrator during World War II, recruiting scientists in Britain-fit into the total picture he has sketched? He apparently presumed himself the model man of "two cultures." But in retrospect, he seems an outsider to both -the novelist who was a scientist to other novelists, the scientist who was a novelist to other scientists...
...physicists are Yuri F. Orlov, arrested in 1978, and Andrei D. Sakharov, banished to internal exile in January 1980. Shortly after Sakharov was exiled, the Physics Department invited the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and human rights activist, who is known as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, to spend a semester here as a Loeb lecturer...
...challenges (the number for each side generally ranges from four to ten, though the total for the defense goes higher in criminal cases in some states). The lawyer need not give any reason, or even have any. "It's very upsetting to get bounced," says John Shore, a scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. "To be denied because you're too smart, or because you're the wrong race or socioeconomic group-that's nonsense...
...Ailurophobe's Delight (Avenel; $2.98) and illustrated by Tomi Ungerer, goes after cats as if they were creatures of the devil (some people think they are). Ailurophobe Author William Cole contends that cats are cruel, treacherous, unloving, smelly and parasitical. Cole assails the vaunted feline IQ, quoting a scientist at the American Museum of Natural History as saying that "a judgment from the literature would put the intelligence of cats below dogs and above rats." According to another researcher, the cat "is no philosopher, no mechanician, no student of human affairs; merely . . . cherished for her air of aloofness...
Recombinant DNA can go immediately from a theoretical flash in a scientist's mind to the bench. Richard G. Leahy, associate dean of the FacultyPhotoThe Harvard Crimson...