Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such a disaster was investigated by the AEC in its own Brookhaven Report, which suggested that reactors one-fifth the size of current models could contaminate up to 150,000 square miles of land, kill 3,400 people outright, cause 55,000 premature cancer deaths, and force evacuation of 450...
The material gathered by Anson and Kane went to Associate Editor Ray Kennedy, who wrote the cover story. It was edited by John Elson and researched by Alexandra Mezey, a sportswoman who has postponed her vacation in order to see the fight. Of the team, only Kennedy claimed to be...
In another era, such a prospect would have suggested almost unimaginable disaster, something like Ireland's potato famine of 1846-48. Veterans of the Depression's Dust Bowl might understand. But for other Americans, if the elements should conspire to bring on the corn blight, the effect would...
Psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson lists other causes of anxiety: the unexpectedness of the quake, and the fact that there is no place to hide. "Mother Earth was good, reliable-and suddenly she betrays you," explains Greenson. "Parents are supposed to be towers of strength-and yet the child finds adults are...
Shaken by their own loss of confidence, mental health workers in several Los Angeles agencies spent the day of the quake talking out their worries in group sessions, then offered similar sessions for ordinary citizens. The response was so overwhelming that the schedule of meetings is still being expanded. All...