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...last two years, however, the foundation has reduced its expenditures in part by cutting the number of graduate fellows from a high of about 200 to 100 in recent years, he added...
Thomas M. Reardon, director of development, says the Core may help attract alumni contributors. "It's of fairly high interest in terms of conversation," he says. But since most of the campaign's advance donations come from loyal contributors who don't specify where they want their gifts spent, it's hard to tell how many dollars the Core will attract, he adds...
...Reshaping undergraduate education" also sets aside $7 million to hire more junior faculty in understaffed departments like Government and Economics. "It's for departments where the teaching resources are under greatest strain," Keller says. A decline in the graduate school population has aggravated the high student-teacher ratios in such departments...
...deaths' would occur each year if the public were exposed to the legal radiation limit, with an additional 100,000 to one million deaths per year resulting several generations later from genetic damage. The National Academy of Sciences objected that their figures were possibly four to ten times too high. This caveat, however, leaves intact still-imposing fatal statistics and Gofman's theory that the number of deaths is directly proportional to the number of persons exposed and the size of the dose each receives. Utility officials are fond of dismissing "minor radiation leaks" as amounting to "just...
...considering opening only one new low-level disposal site--the Lions, Kan., salt mines, once ruled unfit to store high-grade nuclear waster...