Word: experts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public attitude, expecting a perfect record when you're sending machines across 50 million miles of empty space to an alien world would be naive. But trying to do it in a slapdash fashion doesn't help. "There's a difference," grouses John Pike, a space expert with the Federation of American Scientists, "between cheap and cheaper...
Part of the job for both offices is directing traffic--reporters are constantly calling them, needing an expert to comment in a particular field...
...silver service up for bid on eBay, shouldn't you get an idea of its worth? That's the notion behind eppraisals.com which will evaluate your antiques, furniture and collectibles. Send in a digital image and a detailed description of the object, and within two days you get an expert appraisal. The fee for the service, available in early January, is $20. "We can give you a good idea for most objects," says Leslie Hindman, founder of eppraisals and a 20-year veteran of auction houses...
...True, no one could cite any hard-and-fast figures on Internet crime, but that didn't keep another expert from using apocalyptic terms, predicting a continued rash of crime from an "electronic bestiary" of "locusts" (what the rest of us call criminals). So we're looking at a future of electronic fire and brimstone? Not likely, says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner. "Whenever there's a high-tech law-enforcement convention somewhere, we hear cybercops sounding the alarm: Cybercrime is reaching a critical state and doomsday is upon us." It's tough to get worked into a frenzy, adds...
...kite theory evokes a rolling of eyes, however, from professional Egyptologists, most of whom believe the pyramid builders used ramps. Many of these experts are weary of amateurs' pushing bizarre theories that often involve space aliens. "Even if Caltech demonstrates you can lift heavy blocks using kites, that doesn't prove the Egyptians could have built a pyramid that way," says Edward Brovarski, an Egyptologist at Brown University. Mark Lehner, a Harvard archaeologist widely regarded as the leading U.S. expert on the pyramids, was so appalled at the kite theory that he declined comment. Zahi Hawass, Under Secretary of State...