Word: dues
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While the number of deaths in as exposed population is a statistical certainy, it is impossible to identify which cancers are due to radiation and not to other causes. For this reason, the nuclear industry can disingenously challenge critics to point to a single radiation fatality. Gofman compares the nuclear and tobacco industries in this respect. Cigarettes may be linked to 90 per cent of lung cancers, but the individual smoker can't prove his own cancer isn't traceable to something else. Of course, unlike the average Harrisburg resident, the smoker chooses to pay his money and take...
...call for immediate shutdown of all nukes is not a naive fantasy. It is entirely feasible. Earlier this summer, fully one-third of all the nation's nuclear plants were shut down due to minor accidents, regulatory procedures and routine maintenance and refueling. There were no electricity shortages, no brown-outs. With nukes providing less than four percent of U.S. electricity (itself only a fraction of total energy needs), with 30 to 50 per cent of our energy being wasted, with a huge excess electrical generating capacity on the part of the utilities, even a modest program of energy efficiency...
...plant. Northern New England seacoast towns like Seabrook enjoy the peace and quiet of their unspoiled beaches, marshes, and woods. They must now put up with the imminent destruction of the delicate ecological balance of the coastline, the noise of the never-ending plant construction, the fouled drinking water due to the plant, and the frustration of having their elected representatives ignore their repeated calls to stop the nuke and to respect their sovereignty rights...
...second ruling on a different aspect of the council vote is due sometime in the next few months, Randall said...
...Charlotte Rampling (The Night Porter) on assignment for Vogue Hommes. Rampling discovered still cameras two years ago. Since then, she has been shooting whenever she isn't being shot for the movies. "Photography is like a time span of all the people I love and meet," she explains. Due in New York this week to begin work in Woody Allen's next film, Rampling will have to cap her lenses temporarily and leave behind her favorite subjects, Musician Husband Jean-Michel Jarre, their three children and the other Woody in her time span...