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Barker responded to the financial issues in a 1995 paper, writing that " hat is less well known is that vast amounts of money are at stake in the fostering of brainwashing and mind control thesis in the anti-cult movement secondary constructions ", and noting that " deprogrammers " and " exit counselors " charge tens of thousands of dollars for their services and that " expert witnesses " such as Singer " have charged enormous fees for giving testimony about brainwashing in court cases ".
Melvin Small and J. David Singer ( 1976: 50 — 69 ) responded ; they found an absence of wars between democratic states with two " marginal exceptions ", but denied that this pattern had statistical significance.

Singer and with
Blues Singer # 4 shows a female singer on stage with a white flower on her shoulder and a bold red dress, reminisecent of Ella Fitzgerald.
Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.
Friendly with other expatriate American artists, he summered at Broadway, Worcestershire, England, where he painted and vacationed alongside John Singer Sargent at the home of Francis Davis Millet.
During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue ( and singing ) in a feature film ; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation.
When the Nazis invaded, the family fled, Singer leaving on a children's transport train with other Jewish children.
Singer said that the firings placed " the exploration of outer space with high altitude rockets on the same basis, cost-wise and effort-wise, as low atmosphere measurements with weather balloons.
Time magazine wrote in 1969 that Singer had had a lifelong fascination with Phobos and Mars's second moon, Deimos.
In the private sector he has worked for Mitre Corp., GE, Ford, General Motors ; during the late 1970s Singer consulted with Exxon, Shell, Unocal Sun Oil, and ARCO on oil pricing ; and Lockheed Martin, Martin – Marietta, McDonnell-Douglas, ANSER, and IBM on space research.
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly injected themselves into the public debate about contentious scientific issues, positioning themselves as skeptics, their views gaining traction because the media gives them equal time out of a sense of fairness.
Scheuering writes that Singer cut ties with Moon, and is funded by foundations and oil companies.
An interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer, Environment & Climate News, February 2001, accessed May 13, 2010.
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly position themselves as skeptics, with their views being given equal time by the media.
Marx's biographer Francis Wheen considers the " history of the twentieth century " to be " Marx's legacy ", whilst philosopher Peter Singer believes that Marx's impact can be compared with that of Jesus Christ and Muhammad.
The Jazz Singer, released in 1927 by Warner Brothers, was not only the first film with synchronized dialogue, but the first feature film that was also a musical, featuring Al Jolson singing " Dirty Hands, Dirty Face ;" " Toot, Toot, Tootsie ", " Blue Skies " and " My Mammy ".
Margaret Singer, who also spent time studying the political brainwashing of Korean prisoners of war, agreed with this conclusion: in her book Cults in Our Midst she describes six conditions which would create an atmosphere in which thought reform is possible.
The details are fuzzy, however, and Singer admits that he is " not entirely satisfied " with his treatment.
Consistent with his general ethical theory, Singer holds that the right to life is essentially tied to a being's capacity to hold preferences, which in turn is essentially tied to a being's capacity to feel pain and pleasure.
While Singer acknowledges that there are problems with ensuring that money goes where it is most needed and that it is used effectively, he does not think that these practical difficulties undermine his original conclusion ( that people should make a much greater effort to reduce poverty ).
Singer agrees with Julian Savulescu that elite athletes should be allowed to take whatever performance-enhancing drugs they wish, " as long as it is safe for them to do so.
In 1985, Singer wrote a book with the physician Deanne Wells arguing that surrogate motherhood should be allowed and regulated by the state by establishing non-profit ' State Surrogacy Boards ', which would ensure fairness between surrogate mothers and surrogacy-seeking parents.
In a 2001 review of Midas Dekkers ' Dearest Pet: On Bestiality, Singer argues that sexual activities between humans and animals that result in harm to the animal should remain illegal, but that " sex with animals does not always involve cruelty " and that " mutually satisfying activities " of a sexual nature may sometimes occur between humans and animals, and that writer Otto Soyka would condone such activities.

Singer and letter
" In a letter of complaint to ABC News, Singer said their piece used " prejudicial language, distorted facts, libelous insinuations, and anonymous smears.
Hal Singer of the Micro-8 Newsletter published an open letter to Ed Roberts of MITS.

Singer and Science
Singer has worked as a consultant for several government agencies, including the House Select Committee on Space, NASA, the Government Accountability Office, the National Science Foundation, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, National Research Council, the Department of Defense Strategic Defense Initiative, Department of Energy Nuclear Waste Panel, and the Department of the Treasury.
In 1990 Singer set up the Science & Environmental Policy Project ( SEPP ) to argue against preventive measures against global warming.
* Stratospheric ozone, myths and realities: Testimony of S. Fred Singer, Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates: Case Study 1 — Stratospheric Ozone: Myths and Realities, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, US House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Sess., September 20, 1995 31 ( Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1996 ).
* Singer, S. Fred " Testimony of Prof. S. Fred Singer ", Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Climate Change, July 18, 2000, accessed May 16, 2010.
Well-known advocates include primatologists Jane Goodall and Dawn Prince-Hughes, Richard Dawkins, former Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, Peter Singer, professor of philosophy at Princeton University, and legal scholar Steven Wise.
Well-known advocates are primatologist Jane Goodall, appointed a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations to fight the bushmeat trade and end ape extinction ; Richard Dawkins, former Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University ; Peter Singer, professor of philosophy at Princeton University ; and attorney and former Harvard professor Steven Wise.
The Heidelberg Appeal has been enthusiastically embraced by critics of the environmental movement such as S. Fred Singer of the Science and Environmental Policy Project.
Reprinted as chapter 15 of Science and the Paranormal: Probing the Existence of the Supernatural, edited by George O. Abell and Barry Singer, Scribners, 1981.
Singer claimed to have obtained these figures from a 1989 article in the journal Science, but no such article exists.
* Geoffrey Cantor, ' Presidential Address: Charles Singer and the early years of the British Society for the History of Science ', The British Journal for the History of Science 30 ( 1997 ), 5-23. doi 10. 1017 / S0007087496002865
* Anna-K. Mayer, " When things don't talk: knowledge and belief in the inter-war humanism of Charles Singer ( 1876 – 1960 )" in: The British Journal for the History of Science – Volume 38 – Issue 03 – September 2005. doi 10. 1017 / S0007087405007004
The school received the Siemens Foundation Award in 2003 for Advanced Placement programs in Math and Science, and Social Studies teacher, David Pearson, received one of the first Harvard Singer Prizes in 2007 for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching.
Since the re-opening of the museum in December 1995, there were some 100 new exhibits most, of which were curated by the Museum's chief curator, Ilana Singer, who won the award by the Minister of Science and Culture ( 2007 ).
In 2011 American Singer Britney Spears joked that Dr. Emmett Brown was her favorite scientist for " I Am FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll ".

Singer and saying
In his landmark work, The Singer of Tales, Albert Lord refers to the work of Francis P. Magoun and others, sayingthe documentation is complete, thorough, and accurate.
Singer / bassist / songwriter Wetton is quoted as saying " It did really well in Sweden ... but Swedish sales aren't that large.
In the 1977 movie Annie Hall, Allen ( as character Alvy Singer ) makes a pun by saying that he heard that Dissent and Commentary had merged to form " Dysentery ".
" With her new name, she sat on a stool with a sign around her neck saying " Girl Singer ," did breathing exercises, and soon performed as a reader of poems and plays, while Lester made occasional jokes about her " hidden talents.
The previous year Forbes had issued a statement saying he would no longer donate money to Princeton University due to its hiring of philosopher Peter Singer, who views personhood as being limited to ' sentient ' beings and therefore considers some disabled people and all infants to lack this status.
In 2008, Singer Edu Falaschi was originally reported as saying that Angra " has been terminated ", but this was later revealed to be both a misunderstanding and a misreporting of his words.

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