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...jokes about America's "space lemon" and "flying brickyard." Could past scorn actually have increased the passion of this new embrace? The shuttle had become a kind of technological Rocky, the bum who perseveres to the end, the underdog who finally wins. Columbia's success, explained Milwaukee Sociologist Wayne Youngquist, "ties in with so many of our cultural themes. It's Horatio Alger. It's The Little Engine That Could...
...Scientists will argue for years about this report." So said Sociologist Robert Grain last week at a Washington meeting of 400 educators and lobbyists, called by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to scrutinize "Public and Private Schools," the latest report issued by University of Chicago Sociologist James S. Coleman. Also under review: "Minority Students in Catholic Secondary Schools," a study by Coleman's colleague, Sociologist Andrew Greeley...
...Dorothy Thompson (Hepburn's role), Tess Harding (Bacall) is now a TV panjandrum a la Barbara Walters. Tracy's no-non sense sportswriter, Sam Craig, has be come a syndicated cartoonist (Harry Guardino) whose creation, Katz, is a kind of common man's alley cat sociologist...
Crimson: Sociologist Theda Skocpol, whom some describe as a leader in her field, was recently denied tenure. She has since filed a complaint saying she was discriminated against because she is a woman. Would you care to comment on her case...
This conclusion is supported by a study of Massachusetts' stringent 1975 gun law, which imposes a mandatory one-year jail term for carrying an unlicensed gun. Says Sociologist Glenn Pierce of Northeastern University in Massachusetts: "The level of criminal activity has not declined, but the character of the crime seems to have been affected. There are fewer gun-related offenses, and as a result it appears the offenses committed are less deadly." Homicides declined 55% during a two-year period, as shown by a study launched shortly before the bill became law. When those opposed to gun control proclaim...