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...will cost at least $230 billion to clean up 80 contaminated nuclear weapons production sites in 30 states during the next century, according to a federal Energy Department study released today. Even after the cleanup is completed (possibly as late as 2070), hundreds of acres of severely contaminated property may still have to be cordoned off indefinitely, according to the study, which said maintaining such sites could cost $75 million a year. The study further concedes that if the cleanup program is not reformed to eliminate inefficiency and waste, the overall price tag could skyrocket to $350 billion. Even...
...that read KEEPING PROMISES. Ten House subcommittees slashed some $17.5 billion from domestic and foreign programs. Among the victims: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which could lose $47 million from next year's $305 million budget, and the Energy Department, with $80 million trimmed from solar-energy and environmental-cleanup projects. The G.O.P. lawmakers also presented a plan, which outraged Democrats, to take $2 billion from day care, school lunches and other long-standing social-welfare initiatives and convert the money to block grants for states to set up their own programs. Aiming at perhaps the widest target...
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...concern of both university officials and sailing team members is paying for the cleanup costs to the damaged boathouse...
...slogging cleanup required a degree of indomitability, so did reading the headlines in California on Friday. Seismologists have determined that an earthquake even bigger than last year's is simply a part of Los Angeles' destiny, according to stories based on a report in the journal Science. No one can say just how soon, but the L.A. area is overdue for temblors of magnitude 7.5 or greater. That's much more than enough to topple buildings that now meet the area's strongest construction codes. The Northridge earthquake measured 6.7. It killed 61 people and left $20 billion in damage...