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...caused any fatalities. With expanding applications of nuclear reactions and nuclear power, it cannot be expected that this unbroken record will be maintained." Yet Teller's warnings that "a release of [radioactive materials from a reactor] in a city or densely populated area would lead to disastrous results" received scant attention within the Commission for close to twenty years. Indeed, the A.E.C. allowed reactors to be built close to major metropolitan areas such as New York and Chicago. (Still, it is to the Commission's credit that it did not approve Consolidated Edison's proposal for a nuclear plant...
...Humulin represents only a small advance for an American industry that has produced scant profits for its backers and worldwide sales of just $25 million. Another form of human insulin, made conventionally through chemical processes by Denmark's Novo Industri, has been on the market in Great Britain since June. Though Humulin's cost will decline as production runs increase, it will initially be twice as expensive as animal-based insulin and its eventual market is limited, no more than $20 million...
With the Federal Government all but drowning in red ink, scant attention has been paid to the fiscal health of the states. Now two studies show that there is cause for concern. While not nearly as badly off as Washington, the states are busting their budgets at an alarming rate. The Bureau of the Census reports that, while state revenues rose 12.2% to $310.8 billion last year, spending increased at a faster rate (13.1%) and overall indebtedness jumped 10.6% to $134.8 billion. Seven states (Massachusetts, Kentucky, Indiana, South Dakota, South Carolina, New Jersey and New Hampshire) could not balance their...
Thomas Meyer's editorial of October 27 on the subject of Israel's calendar raises some serious considerations for the United States as well as for Israel. For while beginning next fall all Israeli publications will have the Hebrew word for "destroy" printed on them, less than three scant months later. American calendars will bear the imprimatur "1984." Is it sheer coincidence that by rearranging these digits we get "1948," the year of Israeli Independence? Allowing that year to be named 1984 could be seen as American support for Israeli militarism, and should be avoided at all costs...
...REAGAN ADMINISTRATION, it appears, has something of a double standard towards Soviet behavior While Soviet-sponsored political repression in Poland has drawn harsh condemnation from much of the West, the equally grave violations of human rights that the U.S.S.R. regularly commits within its own borders have received scant attention. Tonight, in a rally at Holyoke Center starting at 7:30 p.m., the Harvard community has a chance to dramatize the plight of Soviet political prisoners and--just possibly--to induce a more vigorous American response...