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...Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986, which caused some 100 deaths and 4,000 cancer cases. Nuclear advocates say that plant would never have met international standards, and that the lessons of past mishaps make today's reactors safer than ever. Visiting Australia last week, Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore told ABC Radio: "Within 10 miles of U.S. nuclear reactors, 80% of the people support the reactor, because they have seen it operating for 10, 20, 30 years without any incident." A recent study by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ansto) found that harm to public health from a nuclear plant...
...most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, 62% of respondents say the Iraq war was "not worth fighting." Why do you think public opinion on that question has shifted...
...Carlton Cuse ’81 wishes he were as cool as the smooth-talking, straight-shooting character Sawyer on the ABC hit TV show “Lost.”Then again, he did help create the character.“He’s as cool as I wish I was,” Cuse jokes.As the co-executive producer of the popular show, Cuse is one of a handful of people who know the well-kept secrets behind the mysterious island on which the show is set. The former Harvard varsity rower has been involved with...
...whom was armed. Among the dead were five women and four children. Could the death of an adored comrade have been enough to turn a few well-trained Marines into cold-blooded murderers? James Crossan, a Marine who was injured by the blast that killed Terrazas, told ABC News, "I can understand because we are pretty much like one family, and when your teammates do get injured and killed, you are going to get pissed off and just rage...
...mission in Dili, Sukehiro Hasegawa, says U.N. advisers negotiated a halt to the shooting, and the Army commander promised the policemen would not be harmed if they surrendered. "We then took these unarmed officers out of the compound and we moved on to the street," Hasegawa told Australia's ABC Radio. "Most unfortunately, about 200 m from the police headquarters there were three or four soldiers, and one of them started firing at this group of unarmed police officers." Twelve policemen were killed; more than 20 others were wounded, along with two U.N. police advisers...