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...plan has sparked widespread resistance, with opponents ranging from a few tribal holdouts to the Governor of Utah. The state has filed suit in federal court to void the NRC license on the grounds that the spent fuel would sit dangerously close to an Air Force training path. F-16 fighter jets roar overhead on 7,000 sorties a year. Should one crash into the steel-and-concrete casks, state attorneys argue, cancer-causing radiation could waft over Salt Lake City. Moreover, the state says, used fuel rods, parked aboveground, would be a target for car bombers or airplane hijackers...
...That's regardless of which child-care path parents choose. While the not-for-profit sector treads water, private care has grown rapidly since it became eligible for government subsidies in 1991. About two-thirds of Australia's long-day-care centers are now privately run - 660 of them by Brisbane-based ABC Learning Centres, the world's largest listed child-care provider. Not everyone welcomes the boom. Gordon Cleveland, a child-care economist at the University of Toronto, says Canadian observers are dismayed by Australia's "dependence on the corporate sector - it really frightens us." He argues that child...
...there may be-dare I say it?-a third way available, a path between market worship and protectionism. Stiglitz and other moderate Democratic intellectuals believe that the heart of "economic security" as a political strategy should be a drastically revised social safety net for American workers. By offering universal health insurance and government-subsidized pension reform, Washington would relieve U.S. companies of those two burdens. Also helpful would be wage insurance, which would soften the blow for laid-off workers forced to take lower-paying jobs, and a turbo-charged government effort to promote new industries (like alternative fuels...
Miron could also follow a path many of his students have already tread into investment banking or consulting...
...donations directly to charity” Laursen said. Osborne will be trekking the snow-covered cliffs with SummitClimb Team, a professional organization that only takes applicants with experience. They will take the “North Col” route to the summit, a steeper and more challenging path than the more frequently traveled “South Col” route, according to Osborne. Yet, Mt. Everest, towering at 29,000 feet on the border of Nepal and Tibet, is a challenge for even the most experienced climber. In the past half-century, 13 percent of all who braved...