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...what is byzanium? It's super-uranium, only found on one island off the coast of Russia. It will power the Sicilian project, a laser curtain to shield capitalism and democracy from the trigger-happy Bolsheviks. With typical American foresight, a miner dug all of it up in 1912, before the radio, much less the laser, was more than a glimmer in the mind of some scientist. The miner, with somewhat less foresight, set sail a few weeks later on, you guessed it, see the pieces beginning to fall into place, the Titanic. Pretty good plot...
...Tacitly acknowledging the substantial role of so-called third parties-Blue Cross and Blue Shield, government agencies -in setting health policy. This was done by dropping the clause barring a physician from working "under terms or conditions which tend to interfere with or impair the free and complete exercise of his medical judgment or skill." Says Todd: "Interference? Medicare, Medicaid, insurance companies-all in some way tell a physician what...
...hydrogen bomb, a fission reaction at the core triggers a fusion reaction,* which releases a rapid burst of neutrons. These neutrons have to penetrate an outer shield of uranium 238, which reduces their velocity, increases the bomb's explosive punch and releases harmful radioactivity...
Named for Mary Harris Jones, a turn-of-the-century labor organizer, Mother Jones pursues corporate miscreants with a vigor that would have made her proud. It has linked Bechtel Corp. with the CIA (a charge denied by the company), exposed the dangers of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine contraceptive device, and in 1977 was the first publication to allege that Ford chose not to redesign a faulty fuel system in its 1971-76 Pintos. Just four years old, Mother Jones won its third National Magazine Award in April for a story about how products banned in the U.S. as unsafe...
Europe was quite pleased to find shelter behind that power, concentrate on building its prosperity, and complain that the U.S. was overbearing and probably plotting condominium with the Soviets. Now that the power balance is no longer clear cut and the American nuclear shield no longer as protective, no one can blame Europe for trying to be realistic. But would in not be the better part of realism to seek, instead of accommodation and special deals with the Soviets, joint measures against them? That may be easily said on the American side of the Atlantic but not so easily...