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Yesterday was the anniversary of the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire that engulfed a reactor at Chernobyl poer plant in the Soviet Ukraine, releasing a cloud of radiation that traveled around the world. Soviet authorities did not publicize the accident for three days. Later they said that it killed 31 people and injured hundreds...
...that The Mediterranean has become a classic, Braudel ponders how it might have been done differently. "1 don't think of society the way I did 40 years ago." he says. "There is no society without hierarchy. You have economic hierarchy-the rich and the poer: cultural hierarchy-the knowledgeable and the ignorant; political hierarchy -the rulers and the ruled. The hierarchies maintain themselves. The permanence of hierarchies-I didn't see this problem with enough depth...
...high-powered research in America, and the probable cache of shoddy work as yet uncovered, are more than the work of grant-dispensing bureaucrats and diabolical scientists. Scientists and citizens must recognize the social basis of science, band together and establish public control of research allocations, and procedures for poer-evaluation and review. Only a new scientific ethic, applied socially, will enable the old, self imposed restraints to start working again...
...POER BERESFORD Melbourne, Australia...
DONALD C. DE LA POER BERESFORD London...