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...practically meltdown-proof. Of course, the company would still have to find a place in the U.S. to put it. Many homeowners would sooner burn coal in their own fireplace than live next to a reactor. So rather than try to find converts, the industry hopes to construct new facilities on existing sites, in communities that already depend on plants for jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Summer | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...practically meltdown-proof. Of course, the company would still have to find a place in the U.S. to put it. Many homeowners would sooner burn coal in their own fireplace than live next to a reactor. So rather than try to find converts, the industry hopes to construct new facilities on existing sites, in communities that already depend on plants for jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Summer | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...started sketching it out as a play, Little Murders, and it just took off. It was pure epiphany: a week before, I didn't know I could construct scenes, create characters in action with voices that pulled against each other, and make a social and political statement about something that was important to me. Writing on this rather grim theme, I was euphoric. The satirist's irony--the better I felt, the worse things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Point: A Matter of Medium | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...credible eyewitness saw McVeigh construct his 2-ton bomb, nor could anyone positively identify him as the driver of the Ryder truck who parked the explosives beneath the Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. Prosecutors based their case on evidence that showed McVeigh planned the bombing, rented the Ryder truck, moved into a nearby motel to make preparations and bought a 1977 Mercury as a getaway car. The testimony of McVeigh's friend Michael Fortier, who admitted to helping McVeigh plan the bombing, and the traces of explosives found on McVeigh's clothing were particularly damning. And McVeigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People V. Timothy McVeigh | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...TRANSMISSION An outmoded national power grid has created huge bottlenecks. Bush would construct more gas pipelines and expand the use of eminent domain, so land could be bought and used for new lines

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Energy Plan | 5/17/2001 | See Source »

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