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Marshall is one of a few dozen locals who have stuck it out as a scraphog at a 743-acre site near the Hawthorne Army ammunition plant in northern Nevada. Succumbing to public pressure to clean up its old demolition ranges, the Army last year turned over to a civilian contractor the tricky business of clearing the Hawthorne site, which had become a sprawling dump for more than 30 years' worth of defective or leftover bombs. The winner of the $3.2 million contract was a small new firm based in Washington named UXB International. (UXB, which stands for "unexploded bomb...
...same way about a one night stand after you see Letter to Brezhnev, a little-publicized sleeper from the British Isles now in limited release around Boston. The story of two young women from the gray, depressing city of Liverpool where the largest local employer is a chicken processing plant, Letter focuses on Elaine (Alexandra Pigg) and Theresa's (Margie Clark) quest for adventure and escapist relief from their normally drab lives...
Zoning codes can fine-tune a community with a thoroughness that sometimes seems virtually totalitarian. A homeowner will be told how close to a lot line he can build or plant trees, how high his fences may be, what additions he may build. A piggery war broke out in Bolton, Mass., a town that traditionally earned its living by raising swine. Newcomers to the town proposed an ordinance limiting new piggeries to a maximum of eight swine. They were angrily voted down. A man named Stephen Kenney was hauled before the village court in the Buffalo suburb of Kenmore...
...still put products together largely by hand, Department 260 is run by 14 people. Six of those are white-coated attendants who man the floor's 26 machine stations, clearing equipment jams and feeding the machines' voracious appetites for raw materials. Department 260 is what engineers call a CIM plant, for computer-integrated manufacturing. Computers, from programmable controllers on the floor to a large IBM 3090 Sierra mainframe across the hall, tell the machines how to fashion 600 different varieties of relays and contactors, essentially boxy switches that turn electric motors on and off. Only 14 months old, Department...
...Moscow, Soviet officials released new details of the accident. Yevgeni Velikhov, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, conceded that the 25,000 evacuees from Pripyat, the town nearest the plant, will probably never return to their homes. Velikhov said that while radiation levels have dropped sharply about 40 miles from Chernobyl, extensive decontamination measures will be needed to make the immediate vicinity livable. He said the shattered reactor core, which is being entombed in concrete, remains hot beneath the 5,000-ton pile of sand, lead pellets and boron that helicopters have dumped to seal in radiation. Said...