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Would women have integrated the coal mines and the construction sites if they were interested only in equal pay? The feminist goal is a balanced work force, not a "separate but equal...
Reagan peered down the cramped basement stairs and remembered that his father Jack, a hefty fellow, had to back down to tend the coal furnace. What might OSHA think, the President wondered. In the bedroom with its pennants and simple oak dresser, Reagan drifted back 60 years. "I read a book about Indians and started to build a tepee in here," he said. "Nelle vetoed that." Reagan rubbed a hand over a huge brass ball on the bedstead in his parents' room and recalled that he had taken one from the original bed frame, put it on a broomstick...
...contents of that refrigerator would be much more difficult to dispose of than all those ash-laden trucks. Coal ash is essentially inert and harmless. Used nuclear fuel rods, which are 12 ft. long and ½ in. in diameter and are fastened together in bundles reminiscent of the fasces carried by magisterial aides of ancient Rome, remain very dangerous. Contaminated by such fission products as strontium 90, cesium 137 and plutonium 239, they are not only physically hot (at several hundred degrees), but will remain radioactive for thousands of years...
...French government hopes that by 1990, 70% of electric power will come from reactors. In Japan, where the atom generates 19% of the electricity, the target for 1990 is 27%. Many nations that lack abundant coal, oil or hydroelectric power regard nuclear energy as a necessity. Despite its rising costs, atomic power is often a cheaper alternative to imported fuel. In Japan a kilowatt of nuclear energy costs 5.2?, compared with 5.8? for the same amount of electricity generated by coal and 7.3? for power from oil. Nuclear plants have an impressive worldwide safety record. Government inspections abroad are generally...
...Sarajevo have the mood of a small town, complete with landscaped square, where the flats are small but pleasant. The knotty-pine floors of various communal rumpus rooms (chess, billiards, video games, television, dancing) give the area a fragrance to compete with the common smell of burning brown coal permeating the countryside. At the sight of one game in particular, Americans are inclined to smile: a hockey machine worked by levers, with little U.S.A. men on one side and Soviets on the other. It does not take dinars or rubles, only quarters. Political hockey has been expanded way beyond...