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...time. Our children played outside. All the while, the Government kept saying that it wouldn't hurt us." But when the last of 102 mushroom clouds rose above the desert in 1962, Sheldon Nisson was dead from leukemia. His cancer, along with that of nine other victims, Federal District Court Judge Bruce Jenkins ruled last week, resulted from exposure to those drifting clouds of radioactive fallout. The judge found that area residents had not been given sufficient warning about the dangers of radiation and ordered the Government to pay $2.66 million to the afflicted families...
...Durham district attorney Michael Nifong, who was originally appointed to his post and is running for election on Tuesday, said at a campaign forum this week that he will not bring the Duke rape case before a grand jury when it meets next Monday, the day before the election. Nifong has said he is trying to build a case against a third player. In an attempt to get others present that night to cooperate, Nifong has also begun reinstating misdemeanor charges against lacrosse players previously given deferred community service for such offenses as alcohol and noise violations. One player...
...Next week should be a busy one in Durham, and not just because of the District Attorney election. A report to Duke University President Richard Brodhead that is expected to be damning about the lacrosse team's general behavior is due Monday. And that same day is the deadline for accepted applicants to commit to Duke...
Will a 10,000-foot cloud of dust from a massive bomb spread radioactive particles across the West? It sounds like a nightmare scenario from the 1950s. But that?s the question a U.S. district court in Las Vegas will seek to resolve next month...
...long-restive Solomon Islands, many expected the Parliament's choice of a Prime Minister to go smoothly. But when the 50 M.P.s chose Snyder Rini as the country's new leader on April 17, the capital, Honiara, exploded into violence. Looting and arson almost destroyed the small commercial district, setting the country's already fragile economy back years...