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During the eleven-week trial, the manner of Silkwood's death was not an issue. The case centered on how she had become so poisoned by plutonium that she was, in the words of one expert witness, "married to lung cancer." Lawyers for both Silkwood and the corporation agreed that the young woman's apartment had been contaminated by plutonium from the plant, which has since been closed. The company contended that she had carried the metal out of the plant in small quantities and had, either intentionally or accidentally, poisoned herself. Why? "Maybe she was simply trying...
...translation those passages "praising, encouraging and siding with 'foreign communist movements' as he would have been expected to do." Many of the accounts in the anthology had been published in South Korea without the objections of the government. Among the authors translated by Mr. Lee were Harvard China expert Ross Terrill and economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith described the essay in question, "The Chinese Economy Which I Saw," to Newsweek as "a straightforward and I would say highly uncolored description...
Plainly the citizen's plight is not subject to quickie remedy. Yet any solution would have to entail a shift in the relationship between the priests of knowledge and the lay public. The expert will have to play a more conscious role as citizen, just as the ordinary American will have to become ever more a student of technical lore. The learned elite will doubtless remain indispensable. Still, the fact that they are exalted over the public should not mean that they are excused from responsibility to it-not unless the Jeffersonian notion of popular self-rule...
...Hanley figures that it is equally significant that they are demonstrating a means for working together to increase the effectiveness of the research under way in U.S. universities. Compared with cash-short colleges, companies have far larger resources to invest in basic research, and they are much more expert in managing that research, directing it to the market and recruiting scientists. "The transferral of technology from the university to the marketplace is a very flawed mechanism in this country," says Hanley. "It doesn't work worth a damn...
Barbara Burrell, a numismatics expert responsible for the coin collection in 1973 and a Harvard graduate student, said yesterday that the coins had been valued at $2 million during the 1974 trial. But she said the coins' exact value is impossible to estimate as economic and social relics, and as works...