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...wide shaft tunnels 1,000 ft. down into the mountain to the Department of Energy's planned dumping site for thousands of tons of nuclear waste

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Controls the Land? | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...bury inside Yucca Mountain the most toxic garbage that humankind has produced: 77,000 tons of highly radioactive waste generated by America's 103 nuclear power plants. A thousand feet below the mountain's peak, a tunneling machine called the "Yucca Mucker" has bored a 25-ft.-wide shaft into its center; inside that shaft, technicians in hard hats are running tests to see whether Yucca can begin receiving high-level nuclear waste, perhaps by 2010. For the past 14 years, Yucca has been the Department of Energy's only site for a permanent repository in which to store nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hazardous-Waste Disposal: Not In Our Backyard | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...electric boat - powered by large batteries arranged along the keel, below the flooring of the cockpit - proceeds by stealth. Leaving the marina at Norrie Point, we picked up a few weeds that wrapped themselves around the propeller and threw the rotation of the shaft off true, causing a slight vibration in the tiller. Otherwise, the boat was frictionless and silent - a dreamlike passage. A few sailboats were out, luffing around a course. Now and then, a powerboat would approach us on a snarling Doppler, would rooster noisily past, and recede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Messing About in Electric Boats | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...watching eagerly as one of his workers squeezes a cloth holding the precious mercury and gold mixture, is Freddy Sigarlaki, the owner of the processing unit. Eyes glistening, Sigarlaki explains how he spent about $3,000?several decades' income for most of the farmers in the area?sinking a shaft on a nearby piece of land he owns. The soil yielded hardly any gold. Undeterred, Sigarlaki boasts he has now hired an excavator from Manado at $20 an hour to dig farther and deeper and faster. "No, no, there's no danger of contamination," the pony-tailed Sigarlaki says impatiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grief From Glitter | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

Everyone's well-played blandness and unquestioning acceptance of the game's rules are this film's sharpest satirical shaft. Of course Minahan is grateful that Survivor has come along, in effect, to validate an idea he's been nursing for five years. But he thinks the show is pretty small potatoes--nothing more than "mean-spirited office politics being played out on TV." Despite that send-up, Minahan, a onetime producer for the MTV tabloid show Buzz, is an avid viewer of reality TV. "It brings out the worst in everyone. It's exploitative, manipulative, it encourages narcissism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Visions of False Realities | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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