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Alleged pipe bomber Lucas Helder currently being held without bail in Iowa, is described by friends, classmates, family - even the police - as a well-behaved, polite, serious and totally unremarkable college student. "When I talked with him, he shook my hand and called me sir," a Nevada sheriff told the Associated Press...
Whenever the subject of nuclear waste comes up in American politics, Nevada is quick to proclaim, “not in my backyard.” Recently, Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn used a federal law to veto President Bush’s order to build a permanent waste storage facility in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Last week, the House Energy Committee agreed to override that veto. When the full House votes next week, it too should override the veto...
...anything, building a waste containment facility deep in Yucca Mountain would remove tons of nuclear waste from several temporary surface storage facilities around the country. These facilities are an easier target than the small amounts of waste hidden on trains or trucks crossing to Nevada. Also, the radioactivity of nuclear waste is so reduced before transport that radiation released from the much-feared truck or rail accident would not endanger anyone who simply walked away from the accident...
...child is a Roman Catholic priest. In fact, the perpetrators are a disturbingly diverse lot. There's the Chicago-area nurse who molested up to 18 patients, including a 9-year-old girl who had suffered a brain aneurysm and later died. There's the 33-year-old Nevada day-care worker who committed hundreds of sexual acts on at least nine children, mostly ages 2 and 3--and videotaped them. Some of the most heartbreaking allegations involve the American Boychoir School, a top choral program in Princeton, N.J. More than a dozen alumni from the 1960s...
Service-industry workers may be the public faces of their companies, but they often complain that they don't get heard by their bosses. So at Isle of Capri Casinos, which operates 14 gaming establishments in Mississippi, Nevada and four other states, employees are being encouraged to e-mail their concerns to top management using "Speak-Up" computer terminals located on the casino floors. "You hear some tough things," says president Jack Gallaway. "But 90% of the tough things are right, so we have to listen." Employees can send the messages anonymously or provide their names; it's dealer...