Word: germane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when a light beam hits a metallic target and causes it to give off electrons. (This phenomenon makes possible a host of today's electronic gadgetry, ranging from electric-eye devices to TV picture tubes and solar panels for spacecraft.) In this paper Einstein borrowed from a theory by German Physicist Max Planck, who had solved a vexing problem about the radiation of heat and light from hot objects by proposing that this radiant energy is carried off or absorbed in tiny packets, or quanta. Planck himself was dissatisfied with the theory, believing it contrary to nature, but Einstein enthusiastically...
...move had some bitter consequences. After the outbreak of hostilities, Einstein, a socialist and pacifist, was one of four German intellectuals who signed a manifesto condemning the war. His wife and their two sons had returned to Switzerland. Within a few years the separation led to divorce. In a characteristic gesture of generosity, Einstein had agreed to give the money from his anticipated Nobel Prize to his family. (The $30,000 prize was finally announced in 1922?for his photoelectric theory. Relativity, still not universally accepted among scientists, was only hinted at in the Nobel citation.) Shortly after the divorce...
...fact that he was a Jew. But criticism abroad was muted compared with that in Germany, where Jews were being made the scapegoats for loss of the war and Einstein's pacifism was bitterly remembered. Einstein and his "Jewish physics" became the object of increasingly scurrilous denunciations. Fellow German scientists turned their backs on him?with the notable exception of a few men like Planck. Shortly after Hitler took over in 1933, Einstein, who was abroad at the time, accepted a post at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and never returned to Germany...
...other large U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Pittsburgh and New Orleans, and the volume increased nearly twelvefold. Though Euroblood represents only a small portion of the ten million units of blood now needed in the U.S. each year, many doctors think this volume is already too high. German-born Dr. Klaus Mayer, director of New York's Memorial Hospital Blood Bank, points out that "the impetus for collecting blood in our communities becomes blunted as reliance on imported blood increases." Easy access to Euroblood may also encourage in efficiency and waste. Dr. Aaron Josephson, director of the Chicago...
Another objection: Euroblood may not always be available. Last month a severe cold wave in Europe kept donors home and cut shipments by 20%. Also, some Europeans, like the German magazine Stern, are having second thoughts about the blood traffic. Warns Dr. Shelley Brown of the Council of Hospital Blood Bank Directors in New York City: "For anything as vital as blood, it's unwise to become overly dependent on a supply that you cannot control...