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...pressure is on NRC Chairwoman Jackson to prove her commitment to nuclear safety--and her ability to reform an inert bureaucracy. "I will not make a sweeping indictment of NRC staff," Jackson, a straight-talking physicist who in July 1995 became both the first female and the first African American to run the NRC, told TIME. "Does that mean everybody does things perfectly? Obviously not. We haven't always been on top of things. The ball got dropped. Here's what I'm saying now: The ball will not get dropped again...
...number of foreign skilled and professional workers who can enter the U.S. [BUSINESS, Feb. 5]. If computer-company executives hate the Simpson bill out of a genuine fear of a technical-talent shortage, the solution is obvious: raise the salaries of computer professionals. In my 30 years as a physicist working in industrial R. and D., I have never seen a genuine, sustained shortage of engineers or scientists in this country. However, I have seen corporate-financed propaganda campaigns with dire predictions of America's coming shortage of high-tech workers and of the need for some drastic government action...
Extraterrestrials? The physicist Enrico Fermi rejected the possibility. "Where are they?" he demanded. They would have shown...
Indeed, most of that light and sound show is superfluous because BETA is, with good reason, an almost entirely automated experiment. Otherwise, as BETA director and Harvard physicist Paul Horowitz puts it, "what do you do when something comes in the middle of the night and there's no one here to listen...
Schulhof, a physicist with a Ph.D. from Brandeis University, rose through the technical ranks of Sony's U.S. operations, where he caught the eye of Morita. "From the beginning, Mr. Morita and Mr. Ohga took a liking to me," Schulhof proudly recalls. For 20 years "there was a chemistry that worked. I talked to Mr. Ohga at least once a day and Mr. Morita once every three days. We operated in a collegial fashion. There was almost nothing in writing...