Word: professor
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...Professor Harry R. Lewis said the poor results are not the focus of the subcommittee discussion, but added that the failures indicate students' lack of reasoning skills...
Sakharov "was interested in people, not in sermonizing, in ideas, not fame," Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Richard Wilson told the audience. He added that he "didn't think that Sakharov had expected to be vindicated in his lifetime...
Adam B. Ulam, the Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, said, "Today provides us with a reminder of what we can all do to make this a saner, safer world...[Sakharov] refused to play the martyr--heroism had been much overused, in his opinion, in the media...
...Professor Emeritus Herman Feshbach attempted to put some of Sakharov's accomplishments in perspective. He compared Sakharov to the biblical Moses and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Sakharov was "unique in world history as a great scientist, humanitarian, developer of the atom bomb, and human being," Fesbach said...
Certainly every disease has its lobby. But AIDS is the first deadly epidemic to strike an already organized political constituency, the gay-rights movement, which began with a fundamental distrust of mainstream society, including organized medicine. The AIDS lobby, says Columbia law school professor Harold Edgar, "is independent of and really indifferent to the interests of the scientific establishment." AIDS lobbyists have often been motivated by fear and anger about public indifference, or even hostility, to their terrible problem. AIDS activism "has to do with racism and homophobia," says Nesline of ACT UP. "What's new is that queers...