Word: alabamas
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...independent National Research Council concluded that to pause and explore alternative disposal methods was too risky because the weapons--rockets, artillery shells, bombs and land mines--are deteriorating. There have been some 2,100 reported incidents of leakage inside the igloos. Last summer at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama, 60 workers were evacuated and one was hospitalized after the nerve gas sarin leaked from an M-55 rocket...
...incineration by requiring proof that it will have no long-term health or environmental consequences. The Federal Government says any such study would take 30 years. And no one is enthusiastic about moving the weapons to distant incineration sites, which poses a different set of risks. "Although we in Alabama are willing to destroy our own stockpile, we are absolutely opposed to other people sending their chemical weapons into our state," says Democratic Representative Glen Browder, whose district is slated to be the site of the nation's third incinerator. "Transporting the weapons would be a hot political issue...
Jerry Garcia: Ashes reportedly scattered in the Pacific Ocean Jimi Hendrix: Greenwood Cemetery, Renton, Washington Janis Joplin: Ashes on coastline of Marin County, California Jim Morrison: Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, steps away from romantic composer and pianist Frederic Chopin Hank Williams: Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama Bobby Darin: Body donated to UCLA medical research Buddy Holly: Lubbock City Cemetery, Lubbock, Texas Elvis Presley: Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee, in a mausoleum, alongside his mother
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Attorney General Janet Reno announced that the Justice Department is investigating a series of eight fires during the past year at small black churches in rural Alabama and Tennessee. In a January 29 letter to Reno, the NAACP had asked Reno to investigate, charging the frequency and similarity of the fires "make it difficult to rule out the likelihood that at least some of the fires were racially motivated acts of vandalism." "This certainly catches people's eyes here," says Atlanta Bureau chief Adam Cohen. "It's the kind of an issue that really resonates in the South...
...burning rubber to catch up, especially at the high end. Toyota has enlarged its rugged but cramped 4Runner; Lexus is just out with a pricey model (in the $50,000-plus range) that it calls the LX450; and Mercedes is hurrying to complete a $300 million factory in Alabama that will build a muscly growler it calls an aav, or all-activities vehicle, with a vip price tag in the mid-$30,000 range. (Will it have the effortless, raunchy, bad-attitude rumble of this writer's black-with-red pinstripes 1985 Ford F-250 plow truck, noble...