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...rebirth of nuclear energy? Well, the private sector won't build any more plants until they've got a place to dump the waste, and Jeffords was handed the job as a reward by its true heir, Harry Reid of Nevada. Where he vigorously opposes the opening of Yucca Mountain for said storage purposes...
James Jeffords, 67, has represented Vermont in the U.S. Congress since 1974, when he was elected as the Green Mountain State's lone U.S. Representative. In 1988, his constituents voted him to the U.S. Senate, where he now holds the chairmanship of the Education and Labor committees. If he does leave the GOP to be either a Democrat or an independent, he will reportedly become chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Jeffords would also maintain his seat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee...
...Energy Project. In California, for instance, a new nuclear plant can't even be licensed until the feds come up with a permanent solution. The Energy Department is scheduled to decide later this year whether to go ahead with the controversial proposal to bury the waste deep within Yucca Mountain in Nevada. But with the state's congressional delegation fiercely opposing the idea, the fight could easily drag on for years. If the site could be built, it would still be necessary to find a safe way to move all the fuel there without unduly imperiling the nation's crucial...
...With reporting by Melissa August/Washington, John U. Bacon/Ann Arbor, Amy Bonesteel/Atlanta, Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Paul Cuadros/Kings Mountain and Maggie Sieger/Louisville
...success of all these reforms depends on the willingness of parents and schools to change. That's the mission of a weekly night class called Parent Partners held in Kings Mountain, N.C. At the close of a recent confessional-style session, Pressley Barrino, 38, a lighting technician and father of two, told how he made some mistakes with his first child, who spent time in reform school. He's doing things differently with his 8-year-old daughter Nakia--reading to her at night and helping with homework. He has even taken to dropping by her school during his lunch...