“Project Sunshine…began in 1955 at the University of Chicago,” writes David Proctor in a recent issue of the Boise Weekly. “Willard Libby, later a Nobel Prize laureate for his research into carbon dating, instructed colleagues to skirt the law in their search for bodies…. Documents declassified by the U.S. Department of Energy show that scientists from the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority worked with their American counterparts to take the bodies of 6,000 [deceased and stillborn] infants from hospitals in Australia, Great Britain, Canada, Hong Kong, South America and the U.S., then ship them to the United States…. Libby and others connected with the American defense industry wanted to know how much radiation was entering the food supply.” And what would Proctor and other nuclear critics say if Libby and others had shown no interest in answering this question?
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From the economy that brought you banks too big to fail: dot coms too poor to go bankrupt. The American Bar Association’s ABA Journal (June) cites Pittsburgh bankruptcy lawyer Robert Simons on the problem of dot-com companies that wait until too late to try to save themselves. “With no money, no revenue stream, no business plan, and no employees, there is nothing left to restructure. And Chapter 11 requires cash to pay the filing fee and the lawyers. ‘Ironically, the companies do not have the money to afford bankruptcy,’ Simons says.”
