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...Green Atom Number Five the people seem more inanimate than objects. The paintings and furnishings in Roberto and Marta's "perfect" apartment are removed by friends and mysterious visitors. At times, even the apartment is not where it should be. As the orderly, insulated island of good taste drifts off bit by bit, the couple is left naked and savage-the opposite of everything in their carefully arranged lives...
...method does not do away with the need to measure carbon 14, a radioactive atom that accumulates in all organisms while they live and decays at a known rate once they die. But it measures it in a different way. Current dating methods determine the age of an object indirectly, by measuring its carbon-14 radioactivity. The new technique being developed by Professor Harry Gove of Rochester and his fellow researchers measures the amount of carbon 14 directly. The scientists place a sample of the object to be evaluated in Rochester's tandem Van de Graaff particle accelerator...
Opponents of atomic energy are unmoved by the economic dilemma. The issue is invested with such emotion that few anti-atom groups are pressuring for research into effective alternatives to nuclear power. They emphasize that nuclear accidents at reactor sites could unleash incalculably dangerous radiation. The environmentalists fear that radioactive wastes will be improperly disposed of, thus posing a threat to mankind for thousands of years to come. There is also widespread worry that atomic weapons will be fashioned from plutonium obtained from nuclear-energy plants. Says Pierre Strohl of the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency: "Peaceful application...
...Michael Dukakis, involved in the controversy over genetic-engineering projects at Harvard and M.I.T., argued for the public right to regulate the research. Said he: "Genetic manipulation to create new forms of life places biologists at a threshold similar to that which physicists reached when they first split the atom. I think it is fair to say that the genie is out of the bottle...
...problem confronting West German authorities was chilling. A brilliant nuclear physicist with a sure knowledge of how to build the atom bomb was apparently consorting with leftist ideologues and terrorists responsible for such deeds as the hijacking of the Air France plane to Entebbe last June. Was it possible that Dr. Klaus Robert Traube, the absentminded, tousle-haired son of a Jewish dentist who had committed suicide in 1936 rather than go on living under Nazi rule, had passed on secrets to his radical friends...