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...final flight carried out the last 26 refugees. In 1960 the plain had supported about 150,000 people. Now after a decade of constant if relatively low-level fighting, there are no civilians left. Lat Sen's houses are empty. Abandoned dogs, forming into packs, fight over the last few scraps of food...
...Deaths. Apart from the hazards of low-level radiation, there is the danger that a major reactor accident could release lethal amounts of radiation into the air. To prevent this, the AEC continually upgrades its stringent operating standards, and reactors have a far better safety record than any other major U.S. industry. Most experts agree that the chance of a major accident is exceedingly remote. But accidents do happen, as the Northeast power failure vividly demonstrated...
Rapid recovery was essential, because much of the information scientists hope to gain from the meteorite is based on low-level radioactivity...
...current controversy over painters' helpers has starkly outlined one of the major problems facing Harvard as a large-scale employer: How can it move blacks and members of other minority groups up from their traditional, low-level jobs, to the higher-paying jobs held almost exclusively by whites in the past...
...painters' helpers seems to fall into a commoner category: a blundering attempt at what is nowadays known as "affirmative action"-hiring blacks and other "disadvantaged" workers. Blundering, because Harvard is now facing a situation which has happened in private industry often enough: hire blacks. put them into low-level work slots. give them little attention. look at them a year later. and you find that few, or none, have advanced...