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ters for disabled You expect top security in a top nuclear weapons laboratory, don't you? At Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico, they've got special monitors to detect any radiation in workers leaving premises. Unfortunately, they don't seem to work.
A couple of weeks ago there was what only US officialdom would call a "potentially significant" accident. 11 workers were puters into ordinary schools, a mere £500,000 has been earmarked for the 16000 special schools catering for children with physical and mental handicaps. This will fund the setting out four centres to show teachers how to use computers, but will not be enough to allow development of the necessary software (programmes specially written with the needs of such children in mind), to to allow deveopexposed to deadly plutonium dust. One received more than a lifetime's permitted dose-he is still under observation.
But another worker didn't realise he had been contaminated and he left the plant without detection, contaminating his car and the home of a friend whom he visited. Subsequently, he was found to have received a "relatively" minor dose.
Just as well, really!
ment of suitable interface switches (switches operated by feet, fingers, mouth, etc so that children with physical handicaps can actually use the computers.
As one teacher said recently, "Computers are usefu aids for normal children, but they are not absolutely essential. For some disabled children, computers means that, at long last, they can be educated to the limit of their abilities.
Our movement needs to take up issues such as this, as well as just defending what we already have.
MacDonald MOST working class youth form groups or gangs round schools, workplaces, estates, football teams or rock groups.
There seems to be a vague second sense, a feeling for security and stability and above all a cultural identity.
And hence, for this column's purpose, the punk, skin, ska, etc. phenomena in post-war capitalist Britain.
Middle class youths are different. From a different upbringing, different environment and different culture; comes the tendency towards individualism in outlook, habit and of course rock music.
The Human League carer for the middle class, individualist Human'-ists (not exactly!). It's the 'Human' League, definitely not the Workers league or the