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...reservoir that supplies water to the 2.6 million residents of Kiev. More than 700 peasants evacuated in 1986 have quietly moved back to their farm plots, where they consume contaminated animals and produce. "They would rather die here than live somewhere else," says Alexander Borovoi, a Russian nuclear physicist in charge of the sarcophagus. Some returned to find their homes pillaged of religious art. Although contaminated with cesium 137 and strontium 90, some of the icons have probably entered the world art market...
Carter was an even scarier prospect. It wasn't the hostages in Iran that got to me. It was the fact that he was nuclear physicist. Living within the evacuation zone of Three Mile Island, which had come to a near meltdown a little over a year before the election, convinced me that we didn't want anyone who understood nuclear power in the White House--they wouldn't be afraid of it. Even a year later, we were telling "glow in the dark" jokes. (Some mothers "wore combat boots" in childhood epithets. In our jibes, mothers "fished for three...
...knowledge; the artist, musician or scholar totally engrossed in her field -- in a totalitarian society they would not be allowed to be apolitical. To advance in their professions they would have to join The Party and devote some time to propagandizing for it. In a democratic country a physicist can pass up any participation in politics in order to spend every possible moment pondering the structure of the atom, and may well serve society better by doing...
Georges Charpak, 68, son of Polish immigrants, who served in the French Resistance in World War II and survived Dachau. A physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva since 1959, he was honored for his 1968 work in particle physics and invention of the "multiwire proportional chamber," a tool physicists use to probe the nature of matter. Charpak will use the award for research...
...Only a new seed can yield a new crop," said Hagelin, a quantum physicist with a 1981 Ph.D. from Harvard. He is the candidate of the recently formed Natural Law Party...