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...fueled by both parties." The media have otherwise toed the politically correct line of the brutal male perpetrator and the innocent female victim. However, both the male and the female are caught up in an orbit of mutual destructiveness. Why do we excuse women's behavior as the by-product of social conditioning while men are held fully responsible for theirs? Only by holding both genders accountable for domestic violence can we begin to address the dangerous fantasies and expectations that underlie physical abuse...
...North Korean 5-MW nuclear reactor at Yongbyon has about 8,000 uranium fuel rods. Plutonium is created as a by-product of the reactor's operation...
TIME traced one secret multimillion-dollar sale of osmium 187, a by-product of nuclear reactors that is not weapons related but is an extremely expensive metal with applications in nuclear-energy production. The middlemen in the deal included a former party official and a member of the KGB, who acquired the element worth $40,000 a gram from the factory and sold it to a Swedish company for $70,000 -- though it is not clear whether the profits went into private pockets or the depleted coffers...
Perhaps such chaos is an inevitable by-product of an economy turned upside down, but aviation experts warn that air travel is an enterprise in which even minute compromises in standards are inevitably measured in human lives. "Russian air safety," says Dan Cook, editor of Air Safety Week, "unfortunately is an oxymoron." Cook means what he says: on a recent inspection trip to Moscow, he and a team of safety inspectors declined to use Aeroflot. They flew Finnair instead...
...Here's a fresh concern: lead spewed into the skies above Europe by ancient silver smelters as far back as 2,600 years ago. The toxic by-product has been discovered in lake sediment in Sweden; the lead traces could still cause poisoning...