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After more than $2 billion and a decade of study, the Energy Department gave an amber light on Friday to proceed with the development of an underground nuclear waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert. The department cautioned that some issues still need to be resolved before a final decision is reached in 2001. "The report indicates that Yucca Mountain will be the site," says TIME science writer Michael Lemonick, "but now get ready for years of litigation from anti-nuclear activists...
Monty's understanding of the unspoken language of horses coalesced in his early teens, he writes, during a magical trip to Nevada to round up mustangs for a race in Salinas. He, Larry and a friend named Tony Vargas made the trip together, camping and studying the mustangs. So says the British edition of his book, published two years ago. But both Larry and Vargas deny that such a trip occurred. "They're lying in their teeth," says Monty. In the U.S. edition, published last year by Random House, Monty told a similar story but used the names of Ralph...
...Mike Tyson, already on parole after his 1992 rape conviction, tries to eat his way to a heavyweight title and receives a one-year suspension from the Nevada State Athletic Commission. On Tuesday Tyson pleaded no contest to a charge that he kicked and punched two men after an August, 1998 traffic alteration, a plea that threatens to land him back in prison...
...self-impressed enough to make a symbol of their mere existence a la Woodstock, but the festivals are far more multiracial and gender equal than the hippie fests of yore. And if the rock fests are too mainstream, there's always Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert that brings as many as 20,000 people together to engage in conscious acts of Dadaist performance...
...other victims, finally went on trial last week, more than 13 years after his arrest. Ng and Leonard Lake, both former Marines, are believed to have killed up to two dozen men, women and children during the mid-1980s after luring them to their remote cabin in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. They allegedly forced the women to become sex slaves and took scores of pornographic photographs and videotapes of them before killing them and burning the bodies...