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State legislators working on a plan to establish Massachusetts's first nuclear waste dump site yesterday formally accepted a Harvard recommendation to streamline the process...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: State Okays Harvard Plan To Find Dump Site Sooner | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

Harvard, whose dozen affiliated teaching hospitals each year emit roughly 5000 cubic feet of medically related nuclear waste, had asked the Special Legislative Commission of Low-Level Radioactive Waste to synchronize the search for a waste site and the search for a company to operate the dump...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: State Okays Harvard Plan To Find Dump Site Sooner | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...Connecticut native's second touchdown which sealed Yale's coffin. Penn quarterback Jim Crocicchia, facing a second-and-10 from the Yale 39 midway through the second quarter, hit Comizio with a little dump pass in the left flat...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Unbeaten Penn Flies High at Yale, 23-7; Quakers Take Control of Ivy Title Race | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...tactic that is seen more and more frequently by authorities, the new parasmugglers fly over a drop zone marked by infrared beacons visible only to the pilot. They dump drugs in containers equipped with infrared glow lights and radio transponders. The plane flies on with doors and windows open so any remaining specks of cocaine are blown away, allowing the smugglers to pass Customs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine's Skydiving Smugglers | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...some extreme cases, the crew members put the plane on automatic pilot, dump the drugs and bail out. Once on the ground, they locate the contraband by tuning to the radio signals from the parachuted cargo. The plane crashes when it runs out of fuel. The loss of a $500,000 plane is a modest sacrifice when compared with the tens of millions the cocaine can bring. Roger Garland, operations supervisor of the U.S. Customs Air Branch based at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, once tracked a plane with no one in it for 40 miles until it splashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine's Skydiving Smugglers | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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