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As plumbing goes, nuclear power plants exceed Rube Goldberg's wildest fantasies. The basic idea sounds simple-unstable heavy atoms, like those of uranium 235, break up (fission). Scattered in all directions are electrically neutral particles called neutrons as well as fission products such as shortlived radioactive xenon, krypton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How It Works | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

The reason is that Jerry has staked all on his new economics, and they won't play in Newark, Detroit or Chicago, even if they do in Laurel Canyon. A Democrat already in the White House preaching austerity is bad enough. "Austerity" is not a good rallying cry for the...

Author: By Kerry Konrad, | Title: The Browning of America | 4/3/1979 | See Source »

Testifying at the same hearings, Assistant Energy Secretary Harry E. Bergold Jr. warned that the OPEC nations were also considering reducing oil production, a move that could increase the shortages that are already occurring at scattered U.S. gasoline stations. Some stations faced with limited supplies have been closing earlier or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Next: Challenges at Home | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

Even mainline practitioners are uncertain that psychiatry can tell the insane from the sane. In one experiment, Stanford's D.L. Rosenhan planted eight sane volunteers, one of them a psychiatrist, in public and private psychiatric wards scattered across the country and told them to behave normally. Many inmates quickly realized...

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

Their roots are romantic enough. The Cajuns' Acadian (Nova Scotian) ancestors founded a colony on Canada's Bay of Fundy in 1604, and by 1755 had transformed the wilderness into a bucolic countryside. Then came a scheming English Governor who hated the French. In an act of genocide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jambalaya | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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