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...overseen by the NRC) have created a contingency plan for dealing with a disaster. People living within the evacuation zone have received a potassium iodide pill that looks remarkably like Tylenol, which they must take if Vermont Yankee melts down (or blows up). The pill plan, reminiscent of the duck-and-cover Cold War contingencies, does not inspire much confidence...
...students wait for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to slowly turn its wheels and approve new requirements for general education, the lame duck Core curriculum remains. After Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty and Arts and Sciences, it is more than clear that the proposed requirements—a broad system of general distribution requirements, rather than the current Core—will not be in place for the next school year. In the interim, the Core Standing Committee (CSC), which is the group of faculty members that determines which courses garner the label...
...destroy the nuclear weapons they have acquired. As long as some have them, others will try to acquire them. Iran is not only surrounded by countries that possess nuclear weapons but is also threatened with attack from the U.S. Should we expect Iran to behave like a sitting duck? ERISA MUGABI Kyotera, Uganda...
RICHARD DALEY, Chicago Mayor, after the City Council approved a ban on the sale of foie gras on the grounds that production of fatty duck and goose livers requires inhumane treatment of the birds...
...White House is now on a survival footing, and Bolten is essentially planning a six-month campaign that will not only prevent a Republican hemorrhage in the fall but might even produce accomplishments for Bush in his lame-duck years. The new chief recognizes that he needs to show results quickly, since aides have claimed to be rebooting the second term so many times (at least three, by TIME's count) that even their allies have lost track. The revamps have come every few months and then been hit by unexpected crises like the uproar a proposal...