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...Faculty Council initiative, voted in after pressure from Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell and Undergraduate Council members, may still be too lax...
...plutonium at 200 tons. The military weapons, including all those pits, are still under tight security -- as far as anyone knows. But other forms of plutonium are scattered all over the country in research institutes, laboratories, reprocessing plants, shipyards and power stations, where security is believed to be lax and accounting is unreliable...
Germany and the U.S. have put former Soviet countries' lax control over weapons-grade plutonium on the international front burner. In Germany, where police have now seized four caches of smuggled plutonium, Chancellor Helmut Kohl demanded guarantees from Russia that it would step up efforts to crack down on thefts from nuclear plants. He had the full backing of the U.S. Other German officials said they want Europe's fledgling police agency, Europol, and German spies to fight the smugglers. Russia, despite solid German evidence to the contrary, denied that even one grain of its plutonium is missing. But TIME...
...portable barbecues for mechanics and pilots, while many at the gathering sported buttons that read ASK ME, I'M THE OWNER. Meanwhile, newly anointed chairman Gerald Greenwald, a former vice chairman of Chrysler, was flying coach from New York City's La Guardia to O'Hare and on to LAX and Denver to introduce himself to his new employers. And Mary Beth Andrews, who has worked at United since John F. Kennedy was President, was sharing pizza with co-workers in her balloon-filled Chicago ticket office and delaying her decision to retire. "We don't need champagne," she insisted...
...reputation as an academic tortoise, I did, indeed concentrate in history. With relatively lax requirements and a reputation for a high baseball cap quotient, the History Department is often regarded as the perfect repository for those taking the slow lane through Harvard. I have long suspected that more than one of my more academically inclined friends (particularly those in the honorsconcentrations of Social Studies and History and Literature) think of me as the archetypical history concentrator...