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...project also includes the creation of more parking space to accommodate the new tenants that Harvard hopes to bring to its vacant properties in the neighborhood, addressing a concern Allston residents have had about the availability of parking after learning the University’s plans to fill its empty real estate holdings...
...White House has mostly avoided direct public engagement with its unlikely critic. On ABC's This Week recently, White House economic aide Larry Summers dodged a question about Kaufman's complaints. "Senator Kaufman is exactly right," he said instead, sympathizing with the concern about large bank failures. In fact, on whether to dismantle the largest banks, it would be hard for the two men to disagree more...
...around 50 countries as diverse as Australia, Jamaica and Vietnam. Although that figure is a drop in the bucket compared with the estimated 4.4 million lbs. (2 million kg) of HEU in weapons and storage in the U.S. and Russia, the Atoms for Peace HEU is of particular concern because it is used in civilian reactors that are often poorly guarded and vulnerable to theft. As William Potter, director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at California's Monterey Institute of International Studies, points out, "If you are a terrorist, you don't necessarily go where there...
...more. To meet that goal, Obama has asked for the program's budget to be increased by 67% percent to $560 million next year. But many countries see HEU-fueled research reactors as symbols of prestige and don't necessarily share U.S. and Russian concern that fissile material may fall into terrorist hands. Canada and South Africa, which both have large stockpiles of HEU, argue they need it to make medical isotopes profitably. Politics comes into play too: poor relations between Ukraine and Russia have hampered efforts to move Ukraine's large stocks of HEU to Russian facilities...
...Threat Is Real HEU is of particular concern because of the relative ease with which it can be turned into a mushroom cloud. The uranium bomb exploded over Hiroshima was never tested, so simple was its mechanism. Peter Zimmerman, former chief scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says a group of terrorists in possession of HEU could build an atom bomb using readily available hardware at a cost of around $2 million; if detonated in a city, such a bomb could kill hundreds of thousands. In Chile, I asked Bieniawski if he felt confident that al-Qaeda was still...