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...industry's recent relatively solid record of safety and efficiency has helped its image. In the past decade, electricity deregulation has ushered in a wave of nuclear consolidation, with major powers like Exelon, Entergy, Duke and Dominion Resources paying billions of dollars to buy up many of the nation's plants and squeeze more juice from them. Nuclear power now supplies about 20% of total electricity in the U.S., up from just 4.5% in 1973. At the same time, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given preliminary approval for three new modular, supposedly safer reactors, while simplifying the byzantine new-plant...
...freshman started her season off strong by defeating defending NCAA champion Alycia Kryczalo from Notre Dame at the Penn State Invite. Her momentum then picked up as she continued dominating with wins over schools such as Tufts, UNC, Brown, Duke, and long-time rival Columbia...
While the business schools at Carnegie Mellon, Duke, and MIT also chose to reject all applicants who had tried to see their admissions files, Stanford’s and Dartmouth’s schools took a different tack, electing not to take action until considering each applicant’s explanation...
...another key advantage: in a period of extraordinarily rapid turnover, Summers had overseen the appointment of half the Corporation in just four years, molding a body more amenable to his leadership than even the group that picked him. When Nannerl O. Keohane, the former president of Wellesley College and Duke University, takes over for Gray on July 1, just two fellows from the era before Summers will remain on the Corporation...
...many, a wide range of opinions about the President, but I do not think that the general mood is one of enthusiasm for either style or substance of his administration,” writes Sollors, who was the single tenured Af Am professor at Harvard when Gates came from Duke...