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Student-run monitoring group HarvardWatch released a report yesterday claiming the Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HEPG) has faced conflicts of interest due to their partial funding by Enron and calling for HEPG’s research director to step down...
...Sweeney Todd has much worthy of praise, including professional quality performances, music and production values. it is also laudable for approaching a well loved piece of musical theater from a new angle. It is simply unfortunate that the angle offers not a revealing new look, but rather a distorted partial view...
Meltdowns are far less likely due to reforms after the Three Mile Island incident—a partial meltdown in 1979. When properly managed, nuclear waste can be contained and stored safely for millennia. Some countries, such as France, have already made nuclear power the cornerstone of their electricity production...
...firm, Sioux Chief Manufacturing of Peculiar, Mo., makes water-hammer arresters, which stop pipes from clanging. When demand periodically surged, the 350-person company was overwhelmed trying to handle the workload. "We had to do a lot of overtime, pull people off other departments, beg customers to take partial delivery of orders," says Howard, 61, Sioux Chief's materials manager. "It cost us money...
...Intelligence agencies have accumulated more than 100,000 names of terrorist suspects, U.S. officials say, although many of these are aliases or partial names for the same individuals. Officials say only those names for which there is more specific identifying information are being fed into the NCIC and the U.S. Customs Service's Interagency Border Inspection System (IBIS), which is run at border crossing points. A greater number of names, including aliases, partial names and sound-alike names are being put into the Department of State's TIPOFF system, used to check foreigners seeking visas. Unlike a trooper making...