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Aside from its idiosyncratic risks, Vermont Yankee also shares the risks posed by nuclear power plants in general. Built in the early ’70s, the plant seems ripe for a meltdown, yet like so many other plants nationwide, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has allowed it to increase its output by 20 percent. The plant should have expired years ago, but instead it was purchased and upgraded by Entergy, a company based out of conveniently distant Louisiana...
DIED. Kay Noble-Bell, 65, fierce, feminine star wrestler of the 1960s and '70s; of stomach cancer; in Amarillo, Texas. Known for gravity-defying leaps in the ring to evade such opponents as Gladys (Kill 'Em) Gillem, Noble-Bell wrestled her first match at 18 and competed for 30 years...
PLAZA DE MAYO Since the '70s, these two groups--mothers and grandmothers--have marched regularly in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the return of loved ones taken during a military junta's 1976-83 "dirty...
Despite a few casualties (RIP Kristi Jobson’s wrist), good times were had at Senior Bar’s Roller Disco. Hey, guys, remember the 70s...
DIED. Fausto Vitello, 59, founder of the cult punk-skater magazine Thrasher, who in the late '70s sparked a thrill-seeking urban subculture of skateboarders who jumped curbs and railings instead of just ramps in specialty parks; of a heart attack, while riding his bike; in Woodside, Calif. The motto of the still vibrant movement: Skate and Destroy...