Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alexiades will enter Harvard Medical School after spending a year in Greece on a Fulbright grant. The Westinghouse award winner has conducted biology research for several professors. Her thesis was on the "transcriptional and translational photoregulation of nuclear and chloroplast genes in two strains of rice and their progeny," according to a Radcliffe news release...
Bhutto also met with Secretary of State James H. Baker III and other senior members yesterday, and today will address a joint session of Congress. Observers of Pakistan say that Bhutto will try to convince Congress that her nation does not plan to develop nuclear power for military...
...NATO commander General John Galvin, on the other hand, maintains that nuclear arms are indispensable in keeping peace, especially in Europe...
...these 16 nations prepare for their summit, we've sent out word to all our branches to send a supporting statement for the Bonn position, which we will deliver to the Bonn mission at the United Nations. We're calling for the abolition of all short-range nuclear weapons, East and West, and we're also proposing reduction of Warsaw Pact and NATO forces, both nuclear and conventional, to 50% of NATO's present strength. That is a first step to a united and disarmed Europe. I'll be going to Brussels myself, joining European members of the peace movement...
Investigators analyzing the blowup of the Challenger shuttle and the disasters at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have found that in each case, critical errors were made by people struggling with unusual work schedules and lack of sleep. The two nuclear plant accidents happened in the wee hours of the morning. Similarly, most truck wrecks related to fatigue occur between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. "Shift workers classically have to perform when their brains are trying to put them to sleep," observes Dr. Charles Czeisler of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "They are fighting the internal clock." Many...