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Just after 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, there was a minor pump failure in T.M.I.'s 880-megawatt Unit 2, and the ensuing combination of mechanical malfunctions and operator errors turned what should have been a harmless incident into a potential disaster. The memory lingers, although the main evidence of the accident is hidden. People driving past the plant, which occupies a low island just downstream from Middletown, cannot see the trailers and temporary structures that have turned the site into something resembling a gypsy camp. Nor can the transient get much idea of the activity under...
Medical verdicts on tank therapy range from harmless to beneficial. Some physicians say that a long, hot soak in an old-fashioned tub at home can be as salutary-and solitary. But who needs hot water for meditation? Said Henry David Thoreau, the master solitudinist: "A man thinking or working is always alone, le him be where he will...
...great many would agree with Pudd'nhead Wilson that "it is better to be a young Junebug than an old bird of paradise." The American worship of youthfulness, which has made big industries of facelift surgery and the hair dye trade, may seem vain but essentially harmless. Yet it has a seamier side. One outgrowth of the nation's aversion to aging has been a tendency to look askance at, and often down on, people in the later years of life. The attitude has lately been tagged with the awkward label ageism...
This type of racial humiliation should not be condoned in our society. It isolates and divides human beings in a sensitive time when people are attempting to alleviate racial tensions. The Hasty Pudding Theatricals rationalizes the use of such humor on the grounds that racial stereotyping is harmless and no different than poking fun at "spinsters, prostitutes, or fat people." Throughout history, human beings have consistently killed, enslaved, and oppressed each other because of racial differences. Our identities are marked above all by race. To callously ridicule racial cultures and classify it as typical humor demonstrates a lack of understanding...
...love-sick Lucy (who in this production cries "Hooray for Barry Manilow" just to get a rise out of the budding pianist); of Snoopy's unending battle with the Red Baron. The small circle of friends grows up in these amusing vignettes, while an occasional moral dots the otherwise harmless script. There's not an undergraduate who in his youth didn't toss a few "good griefs" into the wind at a younger sibling...