Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that almost all other species, both plant and animal, reproduce sexually," Meselson asks. "There must be a big advantage for them, but not for rotifers...
...LONGTIME BUREAUcrat, Mark Silverman knows the usual rules of the game: cover your flanks, avoid making decisions, bury all problems under layers of paperwork. As the manager of the Department of Energy's Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant, though, Silverman also knows he's sitting on a time bomb. Until production was stopped in 1989, the plant--just 16 miles from downtown Denver, Colorado--manufactured plutonium components for the nation's nuclear weapons. Enough radioactive waste remains on the premises to cover a football field to a depth...
...containers, and from compartments known as "infinity rooms" because their level of radioactivity is so high. Barrels of radioactive waste are stacked 15 ft. high. Fields contaminated with radioactive oil are covered by only a layer of asphalt. Now that suburbs have crept within three miles of the plant's perimeter, the plutonium that has periodically leaked into the air and nearby streams poses new dangers...
...much of the site's dangerous material. But the people who ran Rocky Flats in the late 1970s and 1980s were frighteningly careless. Things were so bad, in fact, that federal agents raided the facility in 1989 and eventually shut it down. A grand jury later voted to indict plant operator Rockwell International for violating environmental laws. (Federal prosecutors and Rockwell agreed in the end to a plea bargain: the most serious charges were dropped, and the company paid an $18.5 million fine...
...next week, parts of the street will be raised to curbs level and asphalt will be laid for walkways, she said. A crew will return to the site in the early spring to install benches and plant trees, shrubs and flowers...