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...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 from Las Vegas. But Reid and other Congressional critics expressed dismay about the possible fallout. "I?m concerned that tests of this magnitude have been planned without providing Nevadans with any information...
...also says that, with poorer countries invested heavily in the U.S., HMC “wants to be in a position to navigate through what is likely to occur at some point, which is the adjustment in these global imbalances, because they are unprecedented and unsustainable at some point...
...area. As recently as 2002, Harvard felt tremors from a 5.0 earthquake epicentered in New York that measured 3.0 by the time it reached Cambridge. Earthquake shocks also hit in 1921 and 1982, but leading scholars said bigger quakes are unlikely. “Most large earthquakes occur along tectonic plate boundaries. San Francisco is on one; Boston is not. A large earthquake is highly improbable in Boston, although one cannot be absolutely ruled out,” said Hooper Professor of Geology Paul F. Hoffman. However, others said that Cambridge and Boston are as vulnerable to damages caused...
...prepare her for her first kiss, Opal’s mother creates a color-coded guide, whose first section, “Setting the Scene,” recommends ensuring that “interactions occur outdoors, but only if it’s raining. Preferably when he is in a position where you can kiss him upside down...
...these struggles, the position of the U.S. has to be strong: we should lead the efforts to contain Iran at all costs. Whatever the potential international fallout of a tough U.S. stance, it pales in comparison to the devastation that could occur under a nuclear, uninhibited Iran...