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...years ago, most people outside France would have scoffed at such claims. The accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island plant in 1979 and the disaster at Chernobyl seven years later turned an already skeptical world public against nuclear energy. Moreover, oil as cheap as $10 per barrel in the 1990s destroyed its economic rationale. But times have changed. Lessening energy dependence on unstable Middle Eastern and other countries is now a government priority in many countries. And with worldwide demand for energy rising sharply, oil prices spiking at more than $60/bbl and fears growing among the public at large...
Snow is not alone. The phantom employment record, as it might be called, is a common executive-retirement practice in corporate America--and one that is spelled out in corporate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Drew Lewis, the Pennsylvania Republican and onetime head of the U.S. Department of Transportation, got a $1.5 million annual pension when he retired in 1996 as chairman and CEO of Union Pacific Corp. His pension was based on 30 years of service to the company, but he actually worked there only 11 years. The other 19 years of his employment history came...
...Peak Oil" theory fits nicely on a cocktail napkin. Its curve looks like this: Colonel Edwin Drake starts pumping crude in Pennsylvania in 1859. We've been pumping faster and faster ever since. Sooner or later, on this finite planet of ours, it just has to run out. U.S. production peaked in the 1970s. Global production will soon be on the downside of the same dismal curve...
...Bulldogs have to hit the road to Pennsylvania once again, this time to take on Penn and its lights-out defense. For a Yale team that has had trouble scoring on mediocre defenses, points will be at a premium. Penn, on the other hand, has had no problem lighting up the scoreboard...
...writer's affection for the human got the better of his longing for the divine, and his decent and sincere commitment to a life of goodness was undone by his distrust of goody-goodness. Yet he never stopped trying: during the war he joined the Quakers in Pennsylvania, helping refugees. Later, returning to Hollywood, he lived for two years as a monk, escaping now and then to friends' houses as "a haven of peace after the tumults of monastic life." How "delightful religion used to be," he notes, "in the days when I wasn't doing anything particular about...