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...Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning of the worst accident in the history of U.S. nuclear power production, and of a long, often confused nightmare that threw the future of the nuclear industry into question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nuclear Nightmare | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...plain, psychiatry, especially analysis, is now suffering a bad case of mid-life blues. Whatever else the Freudian movement accomplished, it raised hopes dramatically, set the stage for the narcissistic excesses of today's Me Decade, and propagated the notion that mind science was on the brink of blowing away all mental ills. "Psychiatry was overtouted," says Psychiatrist and Author Robert Coles. "Then there was the disenchantment, not only of patients, but also, of course, professionals " Adds Robert Michels, head of Cornell Medical Center's Payne Whitney Hospital and Clinic: "The public's enthusiasm for psychiatry 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychiatry on the Couch | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...Evergreen, Plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Apr. 2, 1979 | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...cancer death rate for middle-aged Mormons living in California is about half as high as the cancer death rate for other middle-aged California whites, Cairns said. "It is quite plain that you can do something about it, because the Mormons have," he said...

Author: By Steven J. Sampson, | Title: British Expert Says Research Has Not Reduced Cancer Rate | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...people; especially to women. Robert Coles said in a review of her book, Tell Me a Riddle, "She has been spared celebrity, but hers is a singular talent that will not let go of one; a talent that prompts tears, offers the artist's compassion and forgiveness, but makes plain how fierce the various struggles must continue...

Author: By Julius Sviokla, | Title: The Survival of Tillie Olsen | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

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