1) About those newspaper advertisements by Norwegian health physicists offering to buy "contaminated" reindeer meat for their families [AtE Dec 86]: they may have helped to pressure the Norwegian government, which has now raised the permitted cesium level in reindeer meat by a factor of ten, making it thirteen times higher than the Swedish limit. The Swedish Radiation Protection Agency now wisely recommends (but it is the pols who decide) that the limit not be stated in activity per kg, but as the maximum yearly intake by consumers; they suggest a limit of 200 kBq of cesium per year (corresponding to some 1,460 lb of meat considered "contaminated" by present standards!).
2) Some corporations whose stocks have been divested by South-Africa-bashing universities return the favor by no longer contributing grants to them. Since US companies give a total of some $1.6 billion to colleges every year, the liberal professoriat is profoundly disturbed, for societal awareness and higher consciousness are secondary to their deepest devotion: green cash for their leftist brainwash. The companies who have withdrawn support apparently include FMC, Marathon Oil, and others, but the matter is given no publicity
¾ by university administrations due to traditional hypocrisy, and by the corporations due to traditional cowardice.3) The Conservative Action Foundation (1326 F St SE, Wash., DC 20003) set up a panhandling stand in front of Elliott Richardson's Washington offices to help him pay his country club dues
¾and to attract attention to his job as PR adviser to the Marxist regime of Angola. Even the Washington Post covered the story.
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Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 14, No. 6 Date: November 30, 2004 08:41 AM Title: "The same thing"
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