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Vanishing Field. Exactly how the reversals could have wreaked such biological havoc is a matter of dispute. Some investigators have theorized that the deterioration in the earth's protective magnetic shield during reversals of the magnetic poles allowed an increased amount of damaging solar radiation to reach the earth. More recently, a number of geophysicists have calculated that even if the magnetic field completely vanished during reversal, the additional radiation would not be intense enough to destroy entire species. As a result, some investigators are beginning to think that the changed magnetism itself may somehow have been responsible...
Potential Havoc. Lawyers for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund argued before the court last week that this approach should set a pattern for the South. At a minimum, they said, individual schools should have enough racial diversity so that they are not identifiable as black. The court moved in that direction in a 1969 decision requiring that the proportion of teachers in each of a district's schools substantially reflect the district's overall staff makeup. Although he did not urge the court to adopt a fixed ratio for black and white pupils, Attorney Julius LeVonne Chambers suggested...
...schools. Griswold conceded that the Constitution permits busing. But he argued that the Constitution does not require districts to break up segregated neighborhood schools if this would involve long bus trips and massive numbers of young children. Chief Justice Warren Burger implied that attempting such a breakup could cause havoc in cities like Washington, where the school population is 94% black...
...choice. After all, even the Los Alamos laboratory chief himself, J. Robert Oppenheimer, had estimated that a reasonably sheltered population would suffer "only" 20,000 dead. Four times that number had died in a single night of fire raids in Tokyo. More B-29 incendiary raids might have caused havoc even greater than Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...marginal operations might indeed be forced out of business when they have to take on the added burden of pollution safeguards. Armco Steel Corp., for example, closed eight old open-hearth furnaces in Houston rather than equip them with costly antipollution devices. This kind of shutdown can cause economic havoc. Some cases...