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...than half of Japan's $200 billion annual G.N.P. All this industry, says Michitaka Kaino, director of Tokyo's Research Institute for Environmental Protection, provided a kind of bestiary of kogai (pollution): "You name it; and from there I'll give you any kind of ecological monster known...
Forbidden Planet. A sci-fi version of The Tempest. complete with a fiery Caliban monster as purely libidinous as anything filmed ever. Might provide welcome respite from delegate-counting. Tuesday, 8 p.m., CHANNEL...
...breeder is a monster," says David Comey, environmental director for Chicago's Businessmen in the Public Interest. Nuclear Pioneer George Weil agrees, calling the breeder concept "dangerous and unproved." Some objections focus on the use of liquid sodium (a tricky substance that explodes on contact with water and burns in air) as a cooling medium. Others concern the fuel, plutonium, the basic ingredient of the hydrogen bomb and one of the deadliest substances known. Finally, the critics wonder how to get rid of radioactive wastes from any nuclear reactor, some of which remain lethal for 500,000 years...
...easiest way to understand them is to dismiss them as monsters. If writing off a whole nation makes you uncomfortable, you can posit a totalitarian state that shredded a people to an atomized mass and transformed each man into a monster. But the facts are less convenient. Most Germans lived close to normal lives. The world turned upside down, but most Germans remained standing...
...Yard and then marching to downtown Boston is a first step. Sending telegrams and letters to key Senators and representatives is another. Signing and circulating petitions is a third. Plans are coalescing for a mass action later this week in Washington: we should count on going to confront the monster in his lair. All the alternatives may seem fruitless, yet they must still be attempted. The survival of the world--astonishing as it seems--may depend on our actions over the next several days...