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DIED. MIKE MANSFIELD, 98, low-key but resolute Montana Democrat and longtime Senate majority leader; in Washington. A high school dropout and "mucker" of mines in Butte, Mansfield got his college degree at the urging of his wife Maureen and went on to a five-decade political career, including 24 years in the U.S. Senate. He changed that institution, encouraging everyone, especially junior Senators, to speak out. At the end of World War II, as a junior Congressman, he advised Truman to allow Japan to keep its Emperor when the country surrendered. At his retirement from the Senate, he served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 15, 2001 | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...this country--because the Federal Government wants to bury inside Yucca Mountain the most toxic garbage that humankind has produced: 77,000 tons of highly radioactive waste generated by America's 103 nuclear power plants. A thousand feet below the mountain's peak, a tunneling machine called the "Yucca Mucker" has bored a 25-ft.-wide shaft into its center; inside that shaft, technicians in hard hats are running tests to see whether Yucca can begin receiving high-level nuclear waste, perhaps by 2010. For the past 14 years, Yucca has been the Department of Energy's only site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hazardous-Waste Disposal: Not In Our Backyard | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...mucker...

Author: By Mike Stankiewicz, | Title: On a Young Team, Sophomore C.J. is a Veteran Threat | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...after seaching for an appropriate description of sophomore forward C.J. Young, Harvard Associate Coach Ronn Tomassoni said simply, "He's a skillful mucker...

Author: By Mike Stankiewicz, | Title: On a Young Team, Sophomore C.J. is a Veteran Threat | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard mucker C.J. Young does...

Author: By Mike Stankiewicz, | Title: On a Young Team, Sophomore C.J. is a Veteran Threat | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

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