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...damage, information gathered from satellite photos suggested a hellish scene at the accident site. All evidence pointed to a nuclear reactor fire burning out of control in the gentle, rolling Ukrainian countryside and steadily releasing radiation into the air. That makes the catastrophe unimaginably worse than the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, where a containment building kept most radioactive material from escaping out of the plant. The Chernobyl unit, by contrast, lacked such a protective structure...
...Accidental removal of four control rods at an experimental nuclear power reactor at Chalk River, Canada, near Ottawa, led to a partial meltdown of the reactor's uranium fuel core. A million gallons of radioactive water accumulated inside, but there were no accident-related injuries. Although negligible in comparison with last week's Soviet accident, it was the first known major malfunction of a nuclear power plant...
...found that external managers are more cost effective. According to Allen, universities with smaller endowments often split up their assets among many money managers or handle part internally and the rest externally. As a university's endowment grows bigger, it can afford higher overhead costs and justify creating a partial in-house management team, says Swenson...
...week's end Chancellor Helmut Kohl declared at a press conference that "the attack also had a Libyan background." But he took care to add, "Please note that I said 'also,' and not 'only.' " German intelligence officials explained that they had been shown what seemed to be only partial transcripts of the Libyan messages intercepted by the U.S. Those summaries, they said, certainly pointed to some Libyan involvement but did not quite prove that Gaddafi had planned and ordered the attack...
...manager. A seasoned TV executive who left his job as head of the CBS Morning News to take the Chicago job, Rodgers, 40, is a well-liked, decisive manager who happens to be black. Jackson and the Rev. Hycel Taylor, the president of PUSH, hailed the choice as a partial capitulation to their demands, thus making it appear that Rodgers won the job because of his color...