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Vegas is also the perfect place for Hickey, who has taught at the University of Nevada since 1992. It's a freebooting and democratic city where people with funny resumes fit right in. Whatever else he is--lucid hipster, tenured iconoclast and barbarian at the gates of art-world convention--Hickey, 62, is the only American art critic of consequence who used to play guitar for a country-and-western band. He is also proof that MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," like the one he was awarded this year, go to some shaggy characters, the kind who like low-rider cars...
...Since 1987, Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert has been the only permanent repository the Department of Energy has considered to store the toxic garbage for at least the next 10,000 years. But Nevada's congressional delegation, led by the Senate's powerful majority whip, Harry Reid, has been fighting tooth and nail to keep the underground nuclear dump out of their state. Yucca Mountain is just 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas and they fear radioactivity from an underground storage facility there would eventually leak, contaminating nearby ground water used for drinking...
...Late last week, Reid launched what amounted to a B-52 attack in his long-running legislative war to block the building of the Yucca repository. He released the results of a General Accounting Office report (that he and Nevada Congresswoman Shelley Berkley commissioned) which concluded that the Energy Department can't stick to its timetable of recommending early next year that the Yucca site should be built "because it doesn't have all of the technical information needed for a recommendation and a subsequent license application." That's bad news considering that the Energy Department so far has spent...
...fast. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, who's furious that the GAO report was prematurely leaked, dismissed the study as "fatally flawed." Abraham appears intent on recommending to President Bush soon that the nuclear waste be located at Yucca. If Bush agrees, Nevada's governor and legislature can still veto the site. But Congress then has 60 days to override the state's disapproval. If it gets to that point, count on Reid to use all his powers as Senate majority whip to block the congressional override...
This weekend, the Crimson heads to Nevada for the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, an event that should serve as a gauge for the team...