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...planes (though it is in effect for only about a week), and F-16 fighter pilots are at the ready. While most reactors were built to withstand the impact of a small aircraft, a 1982 study concluded that a commercial airplane flying at high speed could pierce the concrete dome that protects the reactor core...
...planes (though it is in effect for only about a week), and F-16 fighter pilots are at the ready. While most reactors were built to withstand the impact of a small aircraft, a 1982 study concluded that a commercial airplane flying at high speed could pierce the concrete dome that protects the reactor core...
...security measures at the White House: camouflaging the building, placing machine guns on the roof, covering the skylights with sand and tin. Roosevelt rejected most of the suggestions, to show that the capital stood unbowed--much as, a century earlier, Abraham Lincoln insisted that the construction of the Capitol dome be completed in the midst of the Civil War. Similarly, on Tuesday President Bush decided to end the day in Washington rather than in a NORAD bunker. On Friday he presided over a national day of prayer, giving prominent roles to people of all races and creeds, including a Muslim...
...classrooms are crowded but quiet, far removed from the noise of the harvest outside. In one room under a dome, 800 young men, their beards thickening as they move in their final year into mature manhood, sit cross-legged rocking on their haunches as a professor takes them through an interpretation of a religious text. All students and teachers sit on straw mats on the floor. Classes begin as the sun rises after prayers before dawn, and end again with prayers after dusk. Infractions are punished by banishment from meals. Serious disciplinary lapses lead to expulsion. Television is banned. Women...
There are issues in the U.S. too. In Nevada, where Rio holds a 40% stake in a mine operated and 60% owned by Placer Dome, the Environmental Protection Agency is concerned about groundwater contamination from current mines and the potential for future damage to sacred lands of the Western Shoshone. In Salt Lake Valley, Rio Tinto has paid some $300 million in reclamation costs and is not finished. A 72-sq.-mi. plume of toxins, one of the world's largest, has rendered water from an aquifer beneath Salt Lake City undrinkable. Engineers must halt its spread and prevent public...