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...refusals last autumn by Dukakis and Cuomo to develop evacuation plans for the Seabrook and Shoreham nuclear plants, located in New Hampshire and Long Island respectively, precipitated the NRC proposal, said state officials...
...past several years, Chinese students have flexed their political muscle in scattered protests. In September 1985 several hundred Peking students marched to Tiananmen Square, ostensibly to protest Japan's growing role in the Chinese economy, but also to attack corruption and nepotism among China's ruling elite. This autumn, when student restiveness started up again, it was at first dismissed as the annual student itch. Not until the movement spread early last month to Shanghai (pop. 12 million), with its 200,000 university students and history as a hotbed of radical movements, did the government take notice. Explained a local...
...gray autumn dusk outside, with just enough rain to keep the streets and sidewalks damp. As the hour approaches, radiators click on around the church. "This is typical," Chris Forrest says. "Lots of mistakes and people thinking they can't possibly...
...rites of autumn, when a young moose's fancy turns to thoughts of love. But one suitor is so smitten that he does not seem to mind that his intended is a Hereford cow named Jessica. The 700-lb. moose has been courting his bovine beloved at the farm of Larry Carrara in Shrewsbury, Vt. Undeterred by the amusement of some 4,000 onlookers, the moose has made several amorous advances, only to have the cow trundle away...
...most Harvard students, yesterday's flurries were as common to autumn as the start of classes. But to those freshmen hailing from warmer climates, they were an entirely new phenomenon...