Word: freeman
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...think you'll be pleased by the lineup of scientists who agreed to write for this issue, including Stephen Jay Gould, Freeman Dyson, Steven Weinberg and Steven Pinker. "I usually have to cajole scientists of this caliber to take time off to do articles for us, but this time they all quickly said yes," says Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who oversaw the package. "I chalk it up to what I call the POC effect, which means that by naming Albert Einstein Person of the Century, we underscored how serious TIME is about covering science and the ways that science shapes...
Although critics of the ruling have argued that allowing TFs to unionize would damage their working relationship with their professors, Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman, an expert on labor relations, said he did not think that would present a problem...
...expect any administrator to support unions because unions reduce their power," Freeman said...
...However, Freeman said he thought that if Harvard graduate student TFs decided to unionize, Harvard's administrators would act differently from Yale...
AWARDED. To FREEMAN DYSON, 76, agnostic physicist-ethicist, the Templeton Prize in religion; in New York City. He won for advocating a fusion of moral values with science...