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...acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was already getting raves. As throngs of t-shirt and flip-flop clad youngsters listened to up-and-coming bands in tents whimsically labeled "This," "That," "What" and "Which," revelers cooled off in a giant mushroom water fountain, watched movies and comedy acts, or gaped at giant smoke rings wafting across the limpid evening sky. Meanwhile, on a wide expanse of lawn studded with giant gremlin-like sculptures, a woman wearing pink angel wings leapt at oversized bubbles being blown by a pair of shirtless young men. "Sorry...
...This morning, I get to work and on my desk is an 18-page letter from the President of Iran. Here's something cute: he dots his i's with little mushroom clouds." -- David Letterman...
...mother Helen, who still lives in Washington, Utah, some 125 miles downwind from the test site. "We saw the clouds go over all the time. Our children played outside. All the while, the Government kept saying that it wouldn't hurt us." But when the last of 102 mushroom clouds rose above the desert in 1962, Sheldon Nisson was dead from leukemia. His cancer, along with that of nine other victims, Federal District Court Judge Bruce Jenkins ruled last week, resulted from exposure to those drifting clouds of radioactive fallout. The judge found that area residents had not been...
...Nevada and Idaho. Although the findings are disputed, the 1990 federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act provided compassionate payments to some victims. In announcing the test, James Tegnelia, director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, told reporters the blast "is the first time in Nevada that you?ll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons." Later, after a rebuke from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Tegnelia retracted the description. A Pentagon spokesman said the test would occur at least three miles from areas of known radioactive contamination and that the cloud would not be visible...
...rare move at events like these, Bush and Hu decided to sit next to each other at lunch, instead of a few seats apart, so they could continue working. Over wild-caught Alaskan halibut with mushroom essence they continued their discussions on everything from trade and human rights to North Korean and Iranian nuclear ambitions. No big progress on any of those fronts. Still, the two pledged closer cooperation and the atmospherics were cordial, if not friendly. The two men had met five times previously and have a good working relationship, and Administration officials portrayed the improvement in relations between...