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George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, called nuclear energy "about the safest operation in the United States," and stressed that there have been no fatalities from peaceful use of nuclear technology. He added, though, that accidents like the one at Three Mile Island were inevitable because of the complexity of nuclear technology and the profit-seeking motives of the utilities that control...
...movie company intends to use locations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wellesley College and other area schools to shoot many of the exteriors they were unable to complete at Harvard...
Once safely ensconced at Berkeley, Levenson was greeted by a critical response to his first work that ranged from bland encouragement to outright viciousness. The radical nature of Levenson's work--his relativism, his concern for the context and social bases for thought and his use of dialectics evoked the wrath of the senior American Sinologist then writing, Arthur Hummel. Hummel wrote that Levenson was merely "out to get his man," and that the book "really tells us more about the wayward, corrosive thinking of our time than it does about ... 'the first mind of new China...
...thing, rather than what makes sense. The federal government has offered New York money to build housing in the desolate South Bronx and the city took it, "forgetting that the amount of money Carter offered is inadequate to the task, that there are still viable neighborhoods that could better use limited resources. No, the South Bronx is an outrage! We will not tolerate outrages!" Because "New York politics was bursting with a quasi-religious fervor," New Yorkers transformed essentially nonideological issues, like balancing the budget and educating children, into moral crusades...
...restore it to a competitive position among American cities. Auletta never specifies what exactly should be done--that is not what his book is about. It is about a city that sought to do too much--to give what it didn't have, to take what it could not use. Auletta says the city wasn't murdered. It committed suicide...