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...never been a commercial nuclear power plant accident in the U.S. in which radiation harmed the public, a commendable industrial record. The NRC, like all regulatory organizations, has weaknesses and at times overreacts to situations. Striving for improvement should be a continuing process and one for which NRC chairman Shirley Ann Jackson and her colleagues should have our encouragement and support. Even with its weaknesses, the NRC is still the premier nuclear safety agency in the world. FORREST J. REMICK State College, Pennsylvania...
...part of this weekend's conference, Shirley A. Jackson, chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a distinguished theoretical physicist, was given the Harvard Foundation Award for her contributions to intercultural and race relations...
TIME's special report focused national attention on the NRC's failure to enforce its safety rules at Northeast's Millstone Station in Waterford, Connecticut. Then something extraordinary happened. Where past agency chiefs had routinely ignored such criticism, NRC chairman Shirley Ann Jackson, who had taken the job just 10 months before this scandal broke, called the TIME story "a wake-up call" and "a learning moment." Revving up its inspection program at Millstone, her agency found such pervasive noncompliance that it ordered all three plants there to shut down for sweeping repairs. A year later, Northeast is facing...
...once offered Shirley MacLaine a glimpse of his wry wit and burning anger. When he sat next to the famously pro-China actress at a White House state dinner in January 1979, she thanked him for the gracious reception she enjoyed in China in the early '70s. Deng, who had been in exile at that time, replied without a moment's pause, "The people who were your hosts then are in jail...
Bizarre obsessions don't make interesting art in themselves, but Darger had genuine talent beyond them, particularly in his power of formal arrangement and his sense of color. At their best, his friezes of androgynous Shirley Temploids hold the long scroll format beautifully, with a fine sense of interval and grouping. With the big, delicate flowers and butterflies alternating with weird, cavernous landscapes, searchlight rays and puffs of rifle smoke, they are like a skewed version of Kate Greenaway's Victorian illustrations. The pale, blooming color is rarely less than inventive, and it can break out into a startling decorative...