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...Radioactive waste] is still the Achilles' heel of the industry," says Edward Smeloff, director of the Pace University Law School Energy Project. In California, for instance, a new nuclear plant can't even be licensed until the feds come up with a permanent solution. The Energy Department is scheduled to decide later this year whether to go ahead with the controversial proposal to bury the waste deep within Yucca Mountain in Nevada. But with the state's congressional delegation fiercely opposing the idea, the fight could easily drag on for years. If the site could be built, it would still...
...Attorney Zhou Litai would agree. Zhou represents some of the most visible victims of Shenzhen's march to prosperity. At his crumbling four-story home in the down-at-the-heel Shenzhen suburb of Longgang, 40 of his clients, all amputees, live six to a bunk-bedded room. They lost their arms or legs in machinery at local factories set up by Hong Kong and Taiwanese firms. None has an artificial limb and all received derisory compensation, generally a one-off payment of around $1,000. Official figures show there are 13,000 serious work injuries each year...
...most optimistic vision of what comes next is that with enough pressure--and enough weapons--drug production can be brought to heel. Aronson, State's top Latin America official in the first Bush Administration with drug policy, points with guarded optimism to the battle against the Mafia in America, For years, he notes, people knew the Mob in New York City controlled everything from the docks to trucks, yet it thrived openly. "Like the Colombians," he says, "first we went through a period of denial. Then we went through a period of dealing with it that was ineffective. Then finally...
...Does the idea of drinking graham cracker milk gruel make you laugh or feel ill or both? What about accidentally crushing a mole's skull under your heel and hearing it crack and then putting its severed paw into water, like an avocado pit? Or watching someone shoot staples into their eyeballs for beauty? Or eviscerating a small-horse-like thing and discovering embryos? Your answers will go a long way in determining how you will take to this book...
...Aman Verjee, a seond-year HBS student, said Harvard students' infamous arrogance could be viewed as a strength as well as an "Achilles' heel...