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On March 28, 1979, the worst nuclear reactor accident in U.S. history occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant. Radiation Nation uses the accident to explore the late 1970s as a turning point, focusing on how women crafted a homegrown ecological politics and a new body-centered nationalism. The first cultural history of the accident, Radiation Nation reveals the surprising ecological dimensions of post-Vietnam conservatism while showing how growing anxieties surrounding bodily illness infused the political realignment of the 1970s in ways that blurred any easy distinction between left and right.

Meanwhile, stocks closed mixed yesterday led by gains in tech and industrial companies. The Dow did decline twenty-six points. The NASDAQ closed up eighteen, hitting a new record. The S&P 500 gained three points.

Error in medicine is common and can lead to significant patient injury. Although successful systematic efforts to reduce human error have been applied in other complex systems, the field of medicine has just begun to make a broad-based effort in this regard. However, both research in and implementation of patient safety measures may not occur without considering important legal issues that may impede these health policy efforts. Tort and contract law may interact with the vagaries of managed care to limit participation in these error reduction efforts by health care providers as well as by managed care organizations. Thus, for patient safety research to be successful, all members of the health care enterprise must participate in a coordinated effort to identify and establish effective practices that may reduce human error in medicine. But beyond this understanding, it is imperative that legal impediments be recognized and addressed before the goal of a continuously improving, increasingly safe health care system can become a reality.

Excessive emphasis on the risk of air attack on nuclear power plants obscures the far larger and more frightening possibility of ground assault or the threat from insiders. Security at the nation's nuclear plants has been grossly inadequate for decades, and the nuclear industry and its captive regulatory agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, have refused to do anything about it--both before and after Sep 11.

A study that examines agricultural land values in a cross section of 494 market area regions constituting the US is presented. The hypothesis of a nuclear externality is tested by estimating a reduced form equation of the equilibrium average price of an acre of farmland in which the presence of a reactor is indicated.

Smith discusses whether the construction of the Juragua nuclear power plant in Cuba is a threat to US security. Articles in newspapers have alluded to the unsafe conditions and poor construction of the plant, which has many people concerned, even though members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were satisfied with the plant during their inspections.

THIS PIECE DISCUSSES NEGOTIATIONS BEING CONDUCTED FOR ARMS REDUCTION AND CONTROL OTHER THAN THE 1987 INTERMEDIATE-RANGE NUCLEAR FORCES TREATY. INCLUDED IN THIS ANALYSIS ARE TALKS ON CONVENTIONAL FORCES IN EUROPE, CHEMICAL WEAPONS, AND NUCLEAR TESTING.