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Areva should capitalize on any comeback because it is a one-stop nuke shop, with revenue last year of $13.5 billion and earnings of $513 million--almost a one-third share of the worldwide market. Unlike its key competitors, Westinghouse and General Electric, Areva spans all aspects of the business. It mines and enriches uranium ore to make nuclear fuel; it designs and constructs reactors and helps operate them; and it recycles the spent fuel and packages the remaining waste...
London police admitted last week they haven't a clue as to why thieves in the last six months have spirited away at least 20 bronze sculptures, each weighing half a ton or more. On Jan. 10, at a university campus in Roehampton, a 2.2-m-tall sculpture weighing one-third of a ton by the British modernist Lynn Chadwick was hacked from its plinth. One of a trio of figures, The Watchers, it is valued at $1 million - far less than the $5.4 million price tag on Henry Moore's 2.5-ton Reclining Figure that in December was lifted...
...heart. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that even moderate exposure to CO can put survivors at greater risk of heart disease. Researchers from the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation followed 230 patients admitted to the hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning. More than one-third of them suffered heart-muscle injury, and of those, nearly 40% were dead within eight years. "We were surprised that so many of the patients died," says Dr. Timothy Henry, one of the study's authors. "That's three times as high as the normal population...
...rioting fillip in voter registration, suggesting to Siby that change can come through the ballot box. But like most other people in the banlieues, he's wary of politicians and their promises. The Intercultural Social Center, where Siby volunteers to help kids with their homework, is still waiting for one-third of the money the government promised for 2005; other associations in the community have similar complaints, despite the state's vow to increase funding in the wake of the riots. "Nothing's happened here yet," says Siby. "Everyone is hoping that's because they're still thinking of what...
...Some students in Foreign Cultures 76, “Nazi Cinema: Fantasy Production in the Third Reich” were told which readings they should study for Part I of the exam, a short-answer section worth one-third of the exam grade...