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...commander in Iraq. "Casey is telling the ambassador, 'The Iraqis got it,'" a military source tells TIME. "I'm not sure the ambassador is listening." A spokeswoman for the ambassador says there is no serious disagreement and that Casey and Khalilzad are addressing the issues in a new Joint Working Group...
...politics clambered into a huge hole in the Finnish town of Olkiluoto to watch a laser light show as the climax of the groundbreaking for the first nuclear plant to be built in Europe in 14 years. The winner of the $3.6 billion plant contract was Areva, in a joint venture with Germany's Siemens. China currently has nine nuclear reactors in operation and says it will increase its nuclear capacity fivefold by 2020. The Chinese are expected to select a Western contractor for two new plants this year. The race is among Areva, Westinghouse and Russia's AtomStroyExport...
Areva is well placed in the U.S. too. In September it announced a joint venture with Constellation Energy, based in Baltimore, Md., to promote a new generation of nuclear plant and expects orders for four reactors once the technology is approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Even in nuclear-resistant Europe, official attitudes are shifting. Bulgaria is holding a tender for two new reactors; British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for a debate about the future of nuclear power amid signs that the government may order several new plants; and in Germany and Sweden, public debates are raging about...
...bookstores this spring. The book, which tracks an academically-driven girl of Indian descent as she learns to loosen up, has already been picked up by DreamWorks Studios, who is in talks with Viswanathan about a film adaptation. Contrafilm and Alloy Entertainment will produce, according to Variety. The joint English and American Literature and Language and Economics concentrator—who turned 19 just last month—directed all requests for comment to her publicist, Michelle Aielli, But Aielli remained tight-lipped about the film deal, only saying that “the project was shopped to studios?...
Briahna J. Gray ’07 is a history of science/ history of art and architecture joint concentrator in Currier House, who is seeking to fill the recent void in her extracurricular life formed after leaving her beloved a cappella group (shout out to the Harvard Lowkeys!) with yet another marginal art form—cartooning. When not attempting to figure out what her concentration actually means, you can find her thinking of ways to avoid leaving the Quad…at any cost. Check out Briahna’s cartoons on Wednesdays...