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...acre site is protected by just 180 G.I.s. A U.S. officer who visited one of the most tightly secured areas in the center in mid May was jumped by a bayonet-wielding looter. Highly irradiated equipment that survived the looting, like the 23 cesium 137 "pigs," metal sphere-like wrecking balls, are lying in the open air in an area visited by looters "until the last few days or so," a senior U.S. official told TIME. Troops protecting the approach to one of the most sensitive storage areas say that they still intercept a looter a day. Those they catch...
...villages around are dirt poor, strewn with garbage and stinking of the raw sewage that floods their streets. The local people are "crazy and illiterate," said the engineer Mehdi. Some of the radioactive material was even apparently encased in some 30lbs of metal, seems to have been used to roll bread, U.S. officials say. The favorite use of the barrels was for drinking water. Since the buy back operation and the health warnings that accompanied it, local people have begun to complain of tender skin and other ailments. These could be real or psychosomatic. But villagers have no doubt...
...availability of physical comforts beyond basic necessities is also growing. Lower prices of raw materials and energy signal that they are less scarce, easier to find and cheaper to produce. Aluminum was considered a rare precious metal on par with gold and silver only 100 years ago, but technology has made its extraction cheap and its supply essentially unlimited. Demand for just 12 metals makes up more than 99 percent of world demand for all metals, and supply of those 12 is now considered inexhaustible. Oil prices have fallen over tenfold in the last century while the amount of proven...
About three weeks ago, workers began gutting the interior to lighten the load. They built wooden “cribbing” to support the structure, added metal I-beams and inserted hydraulic lifts. Then they sawed the house loose from its foundation and hoisted it onto the truck...
...watches as a spool on the company’s 1957 tractor cab winds up metal cables pulling the house into place. Since the lot is too small for a truck to drive the house in, crew members work under the house to point the wheels in the right direction...