Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radioactive gas and particles that rose from the stacks of a nuclear power plant at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island last March may turn out to be as harmless to humans as many radiologists predict. But the cloud of uncertainty cast over the future of the beleaguered industry by the nation's scariest nuclear accident remains as dark as ever. This week the best-regarded of half a dozen commissions probing the accident will issue a scathing report that raises new questions about the safety of nuclear reactors and makes some important recommendations...
...news is loaded with even more forbidding challenges. Voyager I, it seems, found a hot spot in the vicinity of Jupiter that is 300 million to 400 million degrees centigrade. Later, Voyager II, going almost 45,000 m.p.h., came as close as 404,000 miles to Jupiter's cloud tops on its way to Uranus-some 1.6 billion miles out there. Science now has an electron microscope that can magnify 20 million times and so can photograph a particle with a diameter of about 4 billionths of an inch. Computers can do 80 million calculations a second (and ostensibly...
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...strong beyond our "ivy walls," our efforts have been to change the attitudes on campus rather than those of society. We feel the need to disprove those individuals at Harvard who feel we are inferior in intellect. However, I think that this important campus-wide struggle tends to cloud the real obstacles to achieving equal status. To the racist the supposed intellectual inferiority sometimes attributed to blacks is justification for discrimination. It came as a shocking reintroduction to society that despite the number of achievements I may earn, there are those who will never respect me because of my skin...
...politics in this visit to the United States, according to Jan Anderson, media coordinator for His Holiness in this country. Permission for his visit seemed to rest on the recent U.S. recognition of China and the U.S. did not want the sticky question of the status of Tibet to cloud developing Sino-American relations. In this first trip to America, the Dalai Lama said he came to "spread compassion, to teach, and to learn," and spoke in terms of humanity in general, rather than Tibet in particular...