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Loeb also said he is alarmed at the trend toward concentration of ownership of media. He predicted that ten large conglomerates will soon control 90 per cent of all print media...
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, professor of Government, said yesterday he believes grade inflation is a major problem at Harvard. "Thirty-seven per cent of the students average above A-minus. This is an outrageous percentage," he said...
...negotiated lease, Kerr McGee held rights to the land "for as long as the ore is producing in payable quantities." The BIA viewed the mines as a welcome boost to the Navajo economy, providing jobs for a people plagued with unemployment hovering in the 50 per cent range. Kerr McGee saw the mines as an easily available uranium source--important for the first oil company to diversify into the nuclear industry--as well as an abundant supply of cheap labor...
...results. Although the company is long gone, the 71 acres of uranium mill tailings remain, untreated and exposed in the city of Shiprock. The U.S. Department of Energy now estimates that those persons residing within a half-mile radius of uranium mill tailings piles have a 100 per cent greater risk of contracting cancer than the general population. The reason is fundamental to the nature of uranium. Uranium mill tailings retain 85 per cent of the original radioactivity of the uranium--"wastes" or not. Kerr McGee's abandoned uranium mill and tailings pile lie approximately 60 feet from...
Meanwhile, back at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, it's business as usual. With the blessings of the bureau, 100 per cent of all federal and Indian uranium production (total government-controlled uranium) came from Indian lands in 1974. In January 1977, the Secretary of the Interior granted a uranium lease to Exxon for 625 square miles of the reservation. According to the Institute for the Development of Indian Law, the lease was finalized only after the Department of the Interior had waived 13 regulations on leasing procedure. One of the regulations would have limited lease size...