Word: projecting
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When you fudge data in a high school chemistry experiment, your teacher admonishes you and lowers your lab grade a point or two. But when you fake statistics in a cancer research project at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), you lose your job and the respect of your colleagues...
During the last protest staged downtown by opponents of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), one of the demonstrators suggested that the issues surrounding the power plant were so complicated, somebody ought to write a MATEP dictionary. He wasn't joking. Over the past four years, as the project has skidded from hearing to decision and back to hearing, it has become almost necessary for those involved--on any side--to learn an entirely new vocabulary and become familiar with a cast of characters. They include...
MATEP: The Medical Area Total Energy Plant, a Harvard-planned project aimed at cutting energy costs for 13 institutions in the University's Medical Area...
...last major independent houses in New York, where things do not appear to be as rushed as at other firms. Its authors include Isaac Bashevis Singer, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and Susan Sontag. Di Capua has edited such acclaimed writers as Larry Woiwode and Michael Arlen. A major project now is the result of one man's highly unusual childhood. Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany is a forthcoming memoir by Joel Agee, son of the late film critic and novelist James Agee. In 1941, Agee and his wife Alma divorced. She took Joel, then a year...
Jonathan Coleman, 28, is the youngest senior editor at Simon & Schuster. The newly published Changing of the Guard is his project. He arrived at the firm three years ago, after working at Knopf as a $220-a-week publicist. During that time, he had met David Broder, the Washington Post journalist...