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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...
...already in the sixth or seventh," says Mark C. Minichiello, principal at Spin-off Advisors in Chicago. "The trend in Europe is definitely picking up. There will be a lot more demergers." Indeed, companies as diverse as Diageo, Nestlé and Deutsche Telekom are contemplating at least partial separations from ill-fitting divisions...
Earthquakes are another hazard, inflicting damage on the building in 1975. In 1997 a tremor caused the partial collapse of the Basilica in Assisi, 320 km to the south, reducing some of its Giotto frescoes to a jigsaw of tiny fragments. Under Professor Basile, the crumbled artworks were reassembled and reinstated in record time. This achievement made Basile a natural choice to direct the Scrovegni restorations. Like Giotto, who organized assistants into a production line preparing plaster layers, grinding colors and transferring sketches, Basile assembled his team. As well as Institute graduates, he recruited Gianluigi Colalucci, who was responsible...