Word: fielding
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...There are not as many black and Hispanic students in my classes as I would like," Lewis writes in an e-mail message. "I have for years tried to support and encourage those members of underrepresented minority groups who I do find in my courses to go into the field...
According to Counter, "Dean Lewis and President [Neil L.] Rudenstine have supported the Foundation's...efforts to encourage minority students to enter the field of science...
Nonetheless, the human race is undeniably becoming a faster race. Since the beginning of the past century, track-and-field records have fallen in everything from sprints to miles to marathons. The performance arc is clearly rising, but no one knows how much higher it could climb. At some point, even the best-trained body simply has to up and quit. The question is, just where is that point, and is it possible for athletes, trainers and scientists to push it higher...
Runners are not the only athletes for whom souped-up genetics could mean souped-up performance. If baseball players could increase their bat speed, home runs that barely clear the fence could fly hundreds of feet farther. Boost leg strength in a football kicker, and a 60-yd. field goal could sail...
Consider the billions of tons of carbon dioxide that are emitted every year in the course of our daily life. Driving a car, switching on a light, working in a factory, fertilizing a field all contribute to the atmosphere's growing burden of heat-trapping gases. Unless we start to control emissions of CO2 and similar compounds, global mean temperatures will probably rise somewhere between 2[degrees]F and 7[degrees]F by the end of the next century; even the low end of that spectrum could set the stage for a lot of meteorological mischief. Among other things...