"BE IT RESOLVED...

This resolution was dutifully censored by the American press and all three networks, who were busy reporting the latest anti-nuclear publicity stunts. Business Week was at it again in cover story and a hair-raisingly inaccurate account of the Browns Ferry fire (much of it almost bodily lifted from Newsweek) and an editorial calling for putting on the brakes on the breeder program. Among other unintended jokes, the editorial stated "If fission plants multiply, the disposal problem will increase exponentially."

Indeed, it has become the fashion for politicians to throw around mathematical terms of whose meaning they have not the slightest inkling. "Let us not forget," intoned Sen. Javits in a TV interview to drive home New York City's poverty, "that half of New York's population has an income below the national median." He failed to add that the other half had an income above the median - which, by definition, is the value dividing a statistical population into two equal parts.