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...however, to a Crimson victory will be Harvard's performance in the longer distances. Freshman Andy Gerken has been getting better with each passing meet and turned his best mile time of the season last weekend. Fellow yardling Cliff Sheehan has established himself as a force to be reckowed with in the 1000, pulling off one come-from-behind victory after another in what Coach Bill McCurdy calls "rambunctious freshman style...
...next year--after yet mother move--Maureen qualified for the National AAU Championships in the swimmer's equivalent of a mile the 1650-yd. freestyle event In 1979, she finished ninth in the country with a lifetime best of 16:30, and won the district, regional, and Virginia state championships...
...rising cost of building the plants. Charles Komanoff, a New York energy economist, argues that the capital investment required to build a reactor is almost twice that required to build a coal plant. Soaring costs come partly from the need for greater safety in the wake of Three Mile Island. But more important is the declining demand for electricity, which not only reduces corporate revenues needed to finance plant construction, but makes Wall Street wary of investing in utilities...
Ironically, then, nuclear power--one of the most sophisticated achievements of human intellect--survives because of short--sight-edness, dogmatic inertia, and the refusal to admit mistakes. The irony is cruel--not merely absurd--in light of the fear and bewilderment of people who live near places like Three Mile Island and Ginna, who realize that their safety is a pawn in a political game. Perhaps we may yet come to our senses and start closing down the 71 plants that stand like so many monuments to blind faith in technology and technocracy. But time is short, and the danger...
...could participate to three: the high jump, the javelin, and the pole vault," Spanos said. "I thought it [pole valuting] looked ridiculous but one of my friends was doing it, so I gave it a shot. Seven feet was the first height I cleared. It seemed like a mile...