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Even if federal regulators take some of the sting out of California's energy prices, tight supplies and high temperatures will ensure that sporadic blackouts continue. It's hard to tell who will have the hotter summer--Californians, their Governor, energy executives or George W. Bush...
...Even the improvements that the industry never tires of trumpeting--more efficient, longer-running plants--do little to comfort antinuclear activists. "They're running these reactors hotter and longer," says Paul Gunter of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service. Last year the Indian Point 2 plant, part of a trio of upstate New York reactors Entergy recently bought for around $1 billion, was temporarily closed down after radioactive water leaked from a ruptured steam tube. Just as the plants are getting older and more prone to problems, critics assert, the nrc is letting operators police themselves...
...Going into Thursday's announcement, the White House was girding for a negative reaction in the press. Inside the West Wing the complaining was hotter than ever that the administration was getting an unfair hearing before the report had even been released. Reporters were "living in the 70s," complained one White House official, referring to the last time the nation went through an energy crisis...
...been the olfactory accompaniment to mankind's inexorable march of progress. Indeed, our willingness to crawl into another animal's skin is precisely one of the traits that separates us from those same beasts. Yet forced by the heat and humidity to shed our cowhides and lambskin loincloths during hotter weather, it's no wonder we are stripped of a little humanity and civilization every Memorial Day. The summertime German invasion of Poland, the Watergate break-in and Woodstock III amply demonstrate this unleathered animalizing tendency...
Despite the rising cost of leather, an upshot of the mad-cow and foot-and-mouth scares, the fashionable skins are hotter than ever--even in hot weather. Thanks to tanning advancements, heavy winter hides are giving way to summer textures that are as light as cotton, soft as silk and so versatile that designers are treating leather like fabric. Some leather can now be washed, and most summer hides are treated to prevent staining from perspiration or barbecue sauce...