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Public Service began constructing Marble Hill in 1978. The original cost estimate for the plant, situated near the small town of Madison, was about $1.4 billion. But Marble Hill ran into the same sort of quality-control problems that have bedeviled the rest of the nuclear power industry, and costs shot upward. Construction crews, for instance, routinely failed to repair properly the air pockets that formed in the concrete as it was being poured. Last month a task force estimated the total price of completing the project would be $7.7 billion or more...
...time Dostoevsky received alms in this way was 'soon after my arrival in prison.' A ten-year-old girl-the daughter of a young soldier, who had seen Dostoevsky in the army hospital when she came to visit her dying father-passed him walking under escort and ran back to give him a coin...
...average student," Hirsch recalls. "But when I was 21, I realized I had always wanted to make something of myself. I doubted I could be a terrific lawyer or a doctor, but I realized I could make a lot of money." Hirsch's father ran the New York buying office of a family-owned department-store chain. The younger Hirsch spent two years studying business at the University of Bridgeport but then dropped out. While living in a fourth-floor walk-up on Manhattan's Lower West Side, he attended more business classes at Pace University and started...
HOSPITALIZED. Frank Church, 59, four-term Democratic Senator (1957-80) from Idaho who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and ran for the presidential nomination in 1976; for a biopsy of a tumor in his pancreas and clearance of a bile duct; at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Church overcame testicular cancer while at Stanford Law School in the 1940s...
Steinbeck ended up a Lost Generation unto himself. As a novelist, he found his theme only when he ran into those other lost and rootless Americans, the Dust Bowl migrants, making their way to California's orchards and lettuce farms in 1935-36. The Grapes of Wrath stands as his one full-scale masterpiece...