Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Shapiro, who characterizes himself as a socialist, does not intend to return to the laboratory until American institutions are significantly changed...
...countryside with the abandoned baby son of the executed governor. She is never more than a few steps ahead of the Ironshirts, the brutal mercenaries ordered to find and murder the infant heir. In her search for a sanctuary where she can hide the boy and await the return of her lover from the imperial army, she meets with nothing but greed and hostility from the frightened peasants and rapacious lust from the soldiers. Her efforts to confront a culture of selfish barbarism with some compassion and decency only estrange her from her lover and mark her as a doomed...
...Along with radiation, critics of the reactor program are alarmed about the effects of thermal pollution on marine life. The problem is that nuclear plants use cool water from rivers and bays, then return it hot. All steam-generated plants require cooling water-as do many other basic industries-but reactors can use as much as 35% more water because they use heat less efficiently than plants fueled by coal or oil. Heat decreases the dissolved oxygen content in the water, makes existing pollutants more toxic, disturbs the reproduction cycle of fish and spurs the growth of noxious blue-green...
...among 365 who were executed between the reign of Henry VIII and the rule of Cromwell, under the Act of Supremacy of 1534. The act made it high treason to refuse the oath that accepted the King as supreme head of the Church of England, to go abroad and return as an ordained Catholic priest, or even to harbor a priest. Since no Catholic priest could be ordained in England, a steady flow of young Englishmen left the country for The Netherlands. They returned as priests in disguise to visit among known Catholic homes called "Mass houses." where they secretly...
...especially those that clog the courts with auto cases and those that "try to legislate morals." He has certainly studied the subject. Once a law professor at Berkeley (his alma mater), Traynor has enriched his judicial career with a prodigious flow of law-review articles. Next month he will return to scholarship as a visiting law professor at the University of Virginia. He also chairs an American Bar Association committee that is drafting a new code of ethics for judges in response to the Abe Fortas case. For Traynor, the job is clearly no sinecure. "If I have anything...