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...only permanent repository the Department of Energy has considered to store the toxic garbage for at least the next 10,000 years. But Nevada's congressional delegation, led by the Senate's powerful majority whip, Harry Reid, has been fighting tooth and nail to keep the underground nuclear dump out of their state. Yucca Mountain is just 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas and they fear radioactivity from an underground storage facility there would eventually leak, contaminating nearby ground water used for drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Nuclear Waste | 12/4/2001 | See Source »

...Converting handwriting to text is surprisingly accurate, and when Journal doesn't recognize a word, it gives you drop-down menus of possible replacements. You can handwrite replies to e-mail or draw diagrams in instant messages. You can turn sentences into to-do items in Microsoft Outlook or dump them into Microsoft Word. No doubt this is all part of Gates' plan to take over the world. That may not please the antitrust lawyers, but at least it isn't a joke anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Write Stuff | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...Edhi's ambulances screeches by, coming from inside Afghanistan. On a narrow stretcher in the back of the ambulance lies an Afghan, Hekmatullah, 22, gasping with pain at every bump. He had the awful luck to be living not more than 200 yards from a Taliban ammunition dump near Kandahar. Hekmatullah was sleeping in his courtyard the night when American bombs struck. The ammo depot erupted like a volcano, spewing bullets and rockets everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ordinary Afghans Hurt by the War | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

...kindergarten for nine years. Technically, she's almost 15." Readers have not seemed to mind Junie B.'s slow progress: 5 million copies have been sold since 1992. Park, 54, who had an "Ozzie and Harriet childhood" in New Jersey, has written 13 other children's books, including Operation: Dump the Chump and Skinnybones. TIME recently spoke with the author, who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., about Junie B.'s popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: The Spirit Of Junie B. | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

Shortly after lunch on a bright, cool day last week, I paid a local cabbie to take me to a Taliban military station and ammunition dump on the outskirts of Kandahar, the spiritual capital of the Taliban movement and, until the U.S. bombings began, the headquarters of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. Midway there, we heard a series of small explosions followed by three or four loud blasts. A few thousand meters to our left, on the edges of the cantonment, the ground was spitting up dust and smoke, clouding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from Kandahar: Kite Flying and Bomb Ducking | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

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