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...Judge is not a conceptual thinker. When he discusses the importance of Central America, it is not in geopolitical terms. The danger, he says, is that a Communist takeover would send a flood of refugees over the Southern border that would cost the U.S. millions of dollars. Conservative Columnist William Safire calls Clark "living proof that still waters can run shallow...
Each year the CDC accepts 60 or so people involved in health care for a two-year tour of duty with the EIS. "We look for the bright, somewhat aggressive independent thinker," says Dr. Lyle Conrad, head of the division's field service officers. About half are based in Atlanta; the rest are assigned to public health departments around the country, with which the CDC works closely. All are on call 24 hours a day, ready to go wherever a disease breaks out, be it food poisoning or a case of primary pneumonic plague that appeared in 1980 in California...
...will have more career opportunities than my generation did, but the economic risks will also be greater. I worry about whether he will gain the skills needed to get ahead in the complex, competitive global economy in which he will grow up." Plainly, Alexander is a long-range thinker, or worrier. Brian is 19 months...
...cloth and science, Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, to the infamous Piltdown hoax (the faked fossil, says Gould, was apparently a youthful prank by Teilhard), and displays irreverence for even his great hero Charles Darwin. Says Gould: "If I have one special ability, it is as a tangential thinker. I can make unusual connections...
...when he does a lot of people are taking notes. Many call Reich the primary reindustrial thinker the Democrats have. He has recently gained popular national prominence with the publication of his new book. The Next American Frontier, and has appeared in most major news weeklies as well as a smattering of newspapers and television programs spreading its message (see accompanying review). As one congressional aide says. "He's been hot with the policy makers now he's hot with the public...