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Like many of the technicians and engineers who run them, nuclear power plants in the U.S. are pushing middle age. So far, only nine of the nation's 112 commercial reactors, which were designed and licensed to run for 40 years, have passed the midpoint of their careers. But by 1995, 40 more plants will celebrate their 20th birthday. Because of that, and because no new plants have been ordered since 1978, within four years 44% of America's atomic facilities will be past their prime. At a time when the Bush Administration is pushing for a renewed emphasis...
...simply raising a single index finger. The prefects who sweep into classrooms, gowns billowing, to summon boys to see the headmaster are known as praepostors (as in preposterous). And at Eton -- and only at Eton -- academic quarters are called halves, making three halves in a school year (though the midpoint of each is "long leave," since half-halves could be mistaken for quarters...
...midpoint of the Class of 1990's Harvard career, the Reagan era closed with a benediction for the generation it has nurtured into adulthood. Broadcast to the national Republican convention in New Orleans was a final injunction. "Don't Worry, Be Happy...
...South Pole last week after a 3,213-km (1,992-mile) trek across Antarctica by dogsled. The expedition was the first to reach the pole by dogsled since Roald Amundsen beat Robert Scott there 78 years ago. But impressive as the feat is, it marks only the midpoint of an even more ambitious journey: a 6,450-km (4,000-mile) campaign that would be the first dogsled trip across the entire frozen continent...
Atlantic City, like Lourdes and Graceland, is a community based on faith. It is sustained by believers like Anna Zawicki, a street sultana taking her ease beneath the lavender awning of Bally's Park Place Casino Hotel, a giant grape Popsicle of a building at the midpoint of the world's most famous boardwalk. By her right side is a pair of stuffed raccoons; by her left, an airport luggage cart that holds her worldly possessions. Frank Sinatra croons to her from inside a boom box, and she accompanies him from time to time on a kazoo. "I like...