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...nation's big nuclear power companies seem to be making enough money to hire more guards, who earn an average of $35,000 annually. Chicago-based Exelon Corp., for example, whose 17 reactors make it the largest nuclear-plant operator in the U.S., saw its power-generation unit triple its income in the first quarter of 2005 compared with first quarter 2004, from $102 million to $320 million. Operators may be worried about future profits, since the increasing move to deregulate electricity has forced most nuclear plants to compete with other electricity producers, all of whom are seeking to sell...
...Bart Simpson would say, that joke is funny for so many reasons. It's also all in the telling, so it plays on comics' need to earn approval through lurid pirouettes of a lunatic imagination. And having spent all its shock value in the setup, it offers a punch line of cheerful poignancy. This family will do anything to be in show...
Morgalis, a former Notre Dame red-shirt who transferred to Harvard in 2002, had one extra year of NCAA eligibility remaining at the end of last season, but was all set to graduate with his class and earn the necessary credits remaining the following fall...
Joubert and Rick (who declined to provide his last name) say they subsist day-to-day on a diet of free dinners from local churches and charities. They say they earn enough from their federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) check to afford coffee and tea—and an occasional danish—in the mornings. For lunch, Rick sometimes cashes in cans and bottles to buy a whole chicken from the DeMoulas Market Basket in Somerville...
It’s easy to say after a 21-win season that saw Harvard earn its fourth consecutive berth in the NCAA tournament, but could Donato have really believed that a Nov. 16 contest against then-No. 1 Boston College would be the Crimson’s coming-out party...