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...opening of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, 655 m (2,150 ft.) underground in massive salt domes near Carlsbad, N. Mex., has been stymied by political wrangling and safety concerns. Last week the Department of Energy attempted to sidestep congressional deliberations on the matter and ship the first load of waste to the plant. It was halted after New Mexico filed a federal lawsuit, and the DOE agreed to postpone the shipment. For the time being, 1 million bbl. of the deadly stuff continue to sit in temporary storage, as they have for decades...
What she told the actors is a collegial secret, except for her instructions to young Adam Hann-Byrd. "Adam is a very realistic kid, very aware," she says. "I wouldn't know how to direct a kid to be that way. So I'd load him up with a lot of technical things -- kids usually connect with the technical -- and then he would just relax. Or I'd say, 'Make your eyebrows like you're scared,' and that would make him a little nervous. And then I'd get what I wanted...
...London in just three hours, for which passengers pay an astronomical $4,167 each way. Yet for all its speed and prestige, the Concorde has always been a money loser for its operators, Air France and British Airways. The SST guzzles too much fuel, carries too small a passenger load and makes so much noise that 30 countries have restricted...
Harper's burdensome load did not prevent him from amassing strong support for the field in a very short time period, his colleagues at Brandeis attest...
Harper's burdensome load did not prevent him from amassing strong student support for the field in a very short time period, his colleagues at Brandeis attest...