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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SITING. A Ford Foundation-sponsored study indicates that a nuclear ac cident at a poorly chosen site-one close to a heavily populated area or at a location where winds would carry radioactive particles toward big cities-would cause 1,000 times more damage to life and property than a mishap at a more remote spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Looking Anew At The Nuclear Future | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Kampala gives up, but Big Daddy is still at large

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Africa's Most Curious War | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...annoying truisms about big ideas is they usually demand big money. The Core Curriculum, the general education program which the Faculty will begin to phase in next year, is no exception. So it was with an equally big sign of relief that the Faculty this week accepted the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's $1.25 million grant for the Core, the first grant exclusively designated to aid the Core's development...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Core Cashes In | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

...smaller part of the funds is earmarked for the Core's other big expense: course development...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Core Cashes In | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

...then little big man Chaikovsky, sporting a new Jimmy Connors haircut, turned his match around...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Netmen Trounce Penn State As Chaikovsky, Pompan Star | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

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