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Re "Are These Towers Safe?" [June 20]: Nuclear power plants are the most heavily defended elements of our civilian infrastructure. Their defenses--at the direction of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and with a cost of roughly $1 billion to the industry--have been upgraded significantly several times since Sept...
NILS J. DIAZ, CHAIRMAN -- U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION -- Rockville, Md.
The development aid target of 0.7 percent of GDP is hardly a new concept. The number was born because of the work of the World Bank’s Commission on International Development—called the Pearson Commission after its chair, former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearsonâ?...
Thus far, the Iraqi Reconstruction of Higher Education Commission has approved spending of $25 million to rebuild damaged buildings, the World Bank has offered a $15 million equipment grant, and the wife of the emir of Qatar has also donated $15 million to an international fund for Iraqi higher education...
Helen Szoke, ceo of Victoria's Equal Opportunity Commission, says religious vilification laws - also adopted in Queensland and Tasmania - are needed to "discourage the abuse of free speech," which can be hurtful: "If a person is experiencing their belief system being publicly ridiculed or undermined, the psychological effects are very...