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Three Mile Island brought the nuclear industry, barely progressing before the incident, to a near standstill. There have been no new domestic orders for nuclear generating plants since 1978. After Three Mile Island, moreover, cancellations came in a flood tide. Work on 18 reactors was halted last year alone, bringing total cancellations since 1972 to 97. Half of those occurred after the Pennsylvania accident. Says Eric Van Loon, executive director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group critical of the nuclear-power industry: "Three Mile Island showed that a $2 billion investment could disintegrate in 30 seconds...
Stevens spends the next hour running errands and grabs an apple and a bag of potato chips to chips to tide her through the day: she has to fly out to Philadelphia directly after her last class to work on the summer's plans for Tamarack Farm. Her next top is a class she audits. "Issues in Liberation Theology." Which centers on the philosophical and theological roots of war and nonviolence by examining the current struggle against militarism in Europe and North America. In response to students' requests. Assistant Professor of Theology Sharon Welch today reviews the history...
Although the tide has turned and bankers and developers are again investing in downtown, the shiny new megastructures of the '70s and '80s are often still as destructive of its "remarkable intricacy and liveliness" as the bulldozers of the '50s and '60s. Whyte first noticed the proliferation of blank walls when, some years ago, he studied how people use city streets, plazas and other open spaces. With the help of movie cameras, he demonstrated that people move, window-shop, meet, chat, rest on benches, stairs and planter boxes and watch other people in ways that...
...Commercial Fisherman Mark Morris of Juneau, Alaska, regularly records the weight and various species of his catch, areas he has fished, weather and tide conditions. Self-employed and the owner of his own boat at 19, Morris happily predicts, "In a few years, using the data I'm now collecting, I'll be better at guessing where the fish will...
...months ago, Mugabe's government sent an armed force led by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade into Matabeleland, the Ndebele homeland in the southwestern part of the country, to crush a rising tide of resistance and lawlessness. The soldiers, most of whom are Shona tribesmen, killed hundreds of Ndebele civilians. Two weeks ago, the Fifth Brigade moved into the suburbs of Bulawayo, the main city in Matabeleland, and conducted house-to-house searches for dissidents. The soldiers even invaded Nkomo's home, where they killed an employee and ransacked the property. That night Nkomo, who had gone...