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...Nuclear Energy Systems and a joint venture between General Electric and Hitachi - promises to be huge as countries around the world turn to alternatives to coal and oil to meet rising demand for clean electricity. A reactor currently under construction in Tennessee is the first of at least a dozen nuclear plants planned in the U.S. over the next decade or so. Italy has just reversed a 22 year-old freeze on building new nuclear plants; Rome aims to use nuclear power to help reduce foreign-energy imports, and cut costs by 30% in the coming years. Belgium and Sweden...
...dozen: Number of synagogues currently active south of 14th Street...
...Jimmy Carter went for flavor, not volume, on his 53rd birthday in 1977: his single cake was pistachio, reportedly his favorite. Ronald Reagan's 1981 surprise party, by contrast, featured veal, lobster, dancing - and a dozen cakes. Two years later, at the end of a televised press conference, his wife Nancy Reagan produced a small, one-candle cake for the President and another for reporters. "You understand we won't sell out for a piece of cake," quipped Sam Donaldson, then at ABC. "Oh, you've sold out for less than that," replied the President. (See TIME's politics blog...
...defense and charges were dropped. (Much of the episode was captured in a 1970 documentary film about the Rolling Stones.) Overseas, a multiyear turf war across Scandinavia involving the Hells Angels in the 1990s reportedly included attacks with machine guns, rocket launchers and grenades and cost close to a dozen lives. More recently, three bikers were killed during a massive brawl between the Hells Angels and the rival Mongols gang at a Nevada casino in 2002. In 2007, a woman was found severely beaten at the door of the group's fortified headquarters in New York City's East Village...
...country's capital, residents were abuzz with talk of the unexpected size and ferocity of the mass trial. "This is simply unprecedented," said a resident of north Tehran. "It's surprising how many are on trial." Just a week before, state media had said only a couple of dozen opposition figures would go to trial and that some 150 dissidents had even been released. In recent days, there had been hopes that the regime would try to placate or compromise with the opposition Green movement, particularly after the Supreme Leader's proclamation that a prison in south Tehran would...