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Nuclear power did much to help the U.S. get through the storms and coal strike that crippled fossil-fuel plants last winter, providing much of the electricity for hard-hit New England and the battered Midwest. Similarly, nuclear power could save the country from the specter of industrial shutdowns and power blackouts as the oil runs out. Even conservative estimates are that the U.S. will need 390 nukes to provide at least 27% of its electric power by 2000. The time to start building these plants is now. Otherwise, they will not be ready when the nation really needs them...
...their leg muscles get strained from sprinting, and shoulder muscles tear from pitching. "Throwing one's arm out" is no mere figure of speech. Dr. James Purdy, emergency-room physician at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, recalls one softball player who threw the ball so hard he shattered his upper arm bone. A hard-hit ball can have a shattering effect of its own when hand-eye coordination fails...
...Michael S. Dukakis, in an effort to appease local florists hard-hit by the February blizzard, issued a proclamation declaring that Valentine's Day would last an entire week this year. Dukakis also ordered revellers to stage the traditional St. Patrick's Day parade on April 2, but left the rest of the calendar intact...
...with volunteers, mostly young people expecting to spend their Easter holidays literally scrubbing rocks and gathering up blackened birds. Handprinted signs in every coastal village from Portsall to Roscoff announced mobilization meetings. Newspapers all over the country were flooded with offers of money and goods for Brittany's hard-hit fishermen; a radio station collected everything from pitchforks to rubber boots. A folk music group offered the earnings from a special new recording about the spill for the cleanup. Thousands of young people seized the catastrophe for political protest, shouting antinuclear-power slogans during a march in the port...
...growing crime too. Cigarette bootlegging is now a big business in 23 high-tax states, mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. The U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations puts the total loss of revenue at $400 million a year. A quarter of that loss occurs in New York: other hard-hit states include Texas ($45 million), Florida ($36 million) and Illinois ($25 million). Worse still, cigarette smuggling has become an important revenue producer for organized crime, ranking fourth behind gambling, prostitution and narcotics. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, who conducted Senate buttlegging hearings last month, says that...