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Still unsettled-and unsettling-is the question of how the U.S. can safely dispose of garbage from nuclear operations. Spent fuel and other wastes remain radioactive for thousands of years. At present a lot of such waste is stored under water in "swimming pools" at plant sites, but nuclear plants are running out of pool space. Some may have to shut down as early as 1983 unless a more permanent method of disposal is found. Nuclear plants are built to operate for about 35 years. By the year 2000 some worn-out ones will either have to be torn down...
...letter to everyone with board scores over 650 in selected zip-code areas, many of them urban ghettos. The competition for top minority students is fierce. "A black with 650 verbals can heat his house for the winter with college catalogues," says Rogers. Brown's black applicant pool steadily declined from a high of over 700 in 1971 to 374 two years ago. Thanks to a recruiting push, more than 500 applied this year; of them about 200 will get in. Some will be risks: "Elaine," for instance, has board scores below 400. But she is near...
...pool of minority applicants for faculty positions is shrinking at the same time. Talented students prefer professional school and a guaranteed future to the uncertain life of academia, panelists said...
...pool of female applicants is also limited, Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, said. There is a concentration of female Ph.D.s in fields that are not hiring, such as romance languages, he added...
...casualties of the military buildup. Although registration would undoubtedly be conducted in as low-key a fashion as possible, widespread resistance is likely to occur and our government will likely prosecute those who don't cooperate. Perhaps most dangerously, a registration will provide the Pentagon with a faceless pool of prospective inductees to be used in a largescale intervention overseas. A beefed-up standby draft system will expand our mobilization capability and make it easier to wage "quick-start" wars around the globe...