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...Rods. There is also disturbing evidence that the nuclear fuel rods in one kind of big atomic plant have bent, crushed or cracked during normal operations. (So have those in a comparable plant in Switzerland.) What makes this problem especially troublesome is the fact that the fuel rods are among the most thoroughly tested part of any nuclear plant. The damage therefore probably cannot be traced to the simplest explanation: shoddy workmanship. Instead, it may have a more serious, generic cause: the rods, designed for and proved in a previous generation of smaller reactors, may simply not stand the higher...
...general cynical explanation is that people with a bent toward scientific endeavor are having great difficulty getting places." Westheimer said. "Medicine is obviously a place which employs talent yet is extremely lucrative...
Amin himself was more than usually unpredictable. He declared that tiny Rwanda was harboring thousands of Israeli agents bent on sabotaging his regime; Rwanda nervously asked Belgium for help in case it was invaded by Uganda. At home, Amin ordered a ban on teenagers' dances and announced that men should bow to him before stating their business, and that women should kneel...
...overstating McGovern's already fairly far-out positions or tying him by implication to policies he has not actually advocated. Nixon urged Americans to "reject the policies of those who whine and whimper about our frustrations and call on us to turn inward." He suggested that McGovern was bent on making the U.S. "the second strongest nation in the world" through cuts in the defense budget. He claimed that McGovern welfare reforms would add 82 million people to the welfare rolls-a gross exaggeration. At the same time, Nixon assailed McGovern's guaranteed-income proposals with the claim...
...section, containing four theatres ranging in size from 150 seats to 500 seats. The lecture halls will be outfitted with expensive and elaborate audio-visual equipment. The most distinctive feature of the lecture wing is the "spider leg" supports which hold the roof aloft. The spider legs are nine bent steel trusses that emanate from the center of the semicircle. They will be left uncovered and allowed to rest until a thick cover of reddish oxides is formed...