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Plainly, mankind cannot renounce nuclear power, so we must find technical means to guarantee its absolute safety and exclude the possibility of another Chernobyl. The best way is international legislation requiring that all new nuclear reactors be sited deep enough underground so that even a worst-case accident would not discharge radioactive substances into the atmosphere. Existing aboveground reactors should be protected by reliable containment structures. The first priority should be to safeguard atomic plants that supply power and heat to large cities, reactors with graphite moderators like the one that malfunctioned at Chernobyl, and fast-neutron breeder reactors...
...also became interested in the possibility of reducing earthquake damage by burying thermonuclear charges deep underground in seismologically active areas and detonating them to relieve the buildup of tension when strains in the earth's core approach the critical level. If this proves feasible, we could control at least the timing of earthquakes; people and property could be evacuated in orderly fashion. To preclude the escape of any radiation, the explosion would probably have to be two or more miles beneath the earth's surface...
While the rest of the world celebrated Earth Day, the followers of Elizabeth Clare Prophet (a.k.a. Guru Ma) in Montana's Paradise Valley were cleaning up their own environmental mess. Thousands of gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel have leaked out of underground tanks built by Prophet's Church Universal and Triumphant in preparation for Armageddon...
...nearly a dozen schools have cobbled together policies outlawing insulting and demeaning speech. At the University of Connecticut students may be expelled if they use "derogatory references" or "fighting words" to harass anyone face to face. Yet if such bans succeed in suppressing obnoxious impulses, they merely drive them underground -- along with many ideas that deserve to be aired, if only to kindle a more heated debate...
...single official pop culture: white, middle class, mid-cult, status quo. Pretty much everybody hummed the same tunes, saw the same movies, laughed at the same genteel jokes. That changed in the '50s with rock 'n' roll. The new music took rhythm, danger and sexuality from the underground black culture, cranked the volume up, electrified it and handed it to a brand new consumer group: white teenagers. The young connoisseurs of metal and raunch are similarly adrift from the entertainment that amuses or moves today's adults...