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...trustees deliberately overspent because we had a number of good projects," Schwilck said...
...additional 100,000 to one million deaths per year resulting several generations later from genetic damage. The National Academy of Sciences objected that their figures were possibly four to ten times too high. This caveat, however, leaves intact still-imposing fatal statistics and Gofman's theory that the number of deaths is directly proportional to the number of persons exposed and the size of the dose each receives. Utility officials are fond of dismissing "minor radiation leaks" as amounting to "just a few chest X-rays." But the hitch is that a few X-rays given to an entire population...
While the number of deaths in as exposed population is a statistical certainy, it is impossible to identify which cancers are due to radiation and not to other causes. For this reason, the nuclear industry can disingenously challenge critics to point to a single radiation fatality. Gofman compares the nuclear and tobacco industries in this respect. Cigarettes may be linked to 90 per cent of lung cancers, but the individual smoker can't prove his own cancer isn't traceable to something else. Of course, unlike the average Harrisburg resident, the smoker chooses to pay his money and take...
Bossert added he had expected a lower enrollment because of students unable to find computer terminals. But since the number of available computer terminals has doubled since last fall, the course will entail more homework, he said...
...Enrollment is larger in Gov 30 than in other introductory Gov courses because a number of students in it intend to go to law school, schools of public policy and, rightly or wrongly, they may think this course has something to do with that," James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government said yesterday...