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...also the personal experiences of lawmakers like Carl Carpenter. Back in 1987, Carpenter's mother Ruth suffered a stroke, making it almost impossible for her to talk. But she always wanted to hear from her adult children and excitedly answered when the phone rang in her small apartment in Plant City, Fla., east of Tampa. Trouble was, most of the calls were from telemarketers. She was finally driven to create a code for her family: whenever they called, they should let the phone ring three times, hang up and then call back...
...Chernobyl is in danger of collapse before its replacement is completed. The new structure, costing hundreds of millions of dollars and partly financed by the international community, might not be finished until 2010. The admission was untimely, coming days before the 17th anniversary of the disaster at the plant, when one of four reactors exploded, killing 31 workers and spewing radiation over much of Europe in the world's worst nuclear accident. TIMEeurope.com: Ukraine in TIME Strike Two ZIMBABWE The government raised minimum wages and set new transportation fares after 70% of businesses shut down in a massive three...
...professors are hoping that a handful of these visiting faculty will plant roots in Cambridge...
Taking cover behind his Bradley fighting vehicle, called Red 2, Sergeant David C. Brown radioed Sergeant Patrick Jarchow in Red 3, and devised a plan that would define the day. Starting from the water plant, Jarchow's men would jump from roof to roof, with Brown matching them on the ground, kicking in doors and clearing houses, identifying targets. Killing them...
...Starting up the reprocessing facility at the Yongbyon nuclear plant has been widely viewed as dangerously provocative because it might allow the North to produce several A-bombs in a matter of months. But so far, Washington's reaction has been muted. U.S. State Department officials quickly saw that the original Korean version of the statement was less definitive than suggested in initial news reports. "There is some discrepancy over the language," a senior State official said Friday, "We're not convinced they have started reprocessing and we're going to wait...