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Every nuclear reactor, whether built to make plutonium or to generate power, produces radioactive "fission products." The supply of this radioactive material does not increase indefinitely because it eventually reaches a point of equilibrium where new additions are balanced by decay of the old. But the fission products must be removed and stored where they can do no damage.* "In these days of cold war," says Thirring, it is likely that "countries possessing atomic piles will store their dangerous by-products with the intention of using them to make enemy cities or industrial centers uninhabitable." He suggests that this will...
...alarming parallel exists between the situation facing us today and that which faced the Roman Empire 1,500 years ago ... barbarism on the outside, refined materialism and moral decay within . . . The lessons of history are evident to those with eyes that will see. The Roman Empire disintegrated from within, and moral corruption was the main cause...
...blips came from Indiana. There, Republicans made "Tru-manism" an issue in municipal elections. Senator William E. Jenner cried that a vote for a Democratic mayor is a vote for the Truman Administration, for "Communists high in the State Department . . . crime and corruption in the Internal Revenue Bureau . . . creeping decay in every department of our national life." Result: Republicans won 73 of 103 Indiana cities, a gain of 25. In Indianapolis, Phillip L. Bayt, probably the best mayor in the city's history, was turned out by a Republican. Dozens of voters told Bayt they thought...
...Down in Darkness, by William Styron. Decay and aimlessness in country-club Virginia; a first novel by a 26-year-old Southerner who writes well if not refreshingly (TIME, Sept...
...examining the progress of leaf decay under the skeleton, botanists found how long the body had been there. Their estimate checked with that of entomologists (insect specialists). Maggotts leave eggs on their prey, and learning the age of these gave the bug men an accurate estimate of how long the young woman had been dead when found...