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When I first visited Plains, Ga., in December 1976, a month after Jimmy Carter's election, the town was buoyed up by various brands of delight-a native son's handmade personal triumph, the daily spectacle of famous TV news faces bolting along the quarter-mile street between Jimmy's house and the heart of downtown, the onset of Christmas...
...crippling legacy of the accident at Three Mile Island...
...American nuclear power development, it has been the worst of times. Though the U.S. still draws about 12% of its electricity from 70 atomic plants, 15 other nuclear facilities were canceled after last year's accident at Three Mile Island, and no new reactors have been ordered in two years. Meanwhile, antinuclear lawsuits and Government regulations have pushed the startup time for a new plant to as long as 15 years. Costs have increased accordingly...
...plant that is powered by coal, oil or natural gas can be stopped in minutes. But the process can be much more perilous at a nuclear facility. When malfunctions occur, the nuclear reaction that produces the energy cannot be shut down instantly; even afterward, heat and radioactivity remain. Three Mile Island demonstrated that control-room personnel are not always prepared to handle an emergency. In the past year the nuclear industry and the Government spent millions of dollars to improve control-room warning systems and to upgrade training programs. Even among nuclear proponents, though, there is still some concern about...
With this aura of scholarly accomplishment hovering over it, why is it then that Wellesley women tend to be dismissed as slickly-packaged air heads by Harvard women, and pursued by Harvard men who often make the 12-mile busride to Wellesley to participate in brief one-night flings? A trip out to Wellesley and a weekend spent talking to and observing the undergraduates reveals surprising facts about life among the 2000 females ensconced out there, including a startling amount of unhappiness and bitterness...