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During the spring outage, a valve was accidentally left open, spilling 12,000 gal. of reactor-coolant water--a blunder that further shook Galatis' faith. He began to see problems almost everywhere he looked and proposed the creation of a global-issues task force to find out whether Millstone was safe enough to go back online. His bosses agreed. But when the head of the task force left for a golf vacation a few weeks before the plant was scheduled to start up, Galatis says, he knew it wasn't a serious effort. So he made a call to Ernest...
When asked if there could have been a better way of ending their careers at Blodgett Pool, both Koerckel and Durkin just smiled and shook their heads. That said it all--what a great day to be a Harvard swimmer. Princeton 104 Harvard 194 Penn 72 Harvard...
...Turkish ferry loaded with Russians in the Turkish Black Sea port of Trabzon and taking 30 Russians hostage in their capital, Grozny, even as hostage-takers under withering Russian assault in Pervomayskaya, Dagestan, vowed to fight to the death. Chechens escalated the conflict as Russian President Boris Yeltsin shook up his cabinet, replacing Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Filatov, one of the last remaining liberals in his administration, with hawk Nikolai Yegorov. The developments limn the increasingly desperate straits of both the Chechen separatists and Russian president Boris Yeltsin. For Yeltsin, says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "Chechnya has been...
...them three days later. On the night of Dec. 14, more than 1,000 employees gathered in the gym of Central Catholic High School to learn the fate of their jobs and of the cities of Methuen and Lawrence. Feuerstein entered the gym from the back, and as he shook the snow off his coat, the murmurs turned to cheers. The factory owner, who had already given out $275 Christmas bonuses and pledged to rebuild, walked to the podium. "I will get right to my announcement," he said. "For the next 30 days--and it might be more...
When O'Leary first took over, she shook up the organization, cutting 51,000 of its 169,000 employees and contractors. She also made public the agency's records on radiation tests performed on unwitting patients during the cold war. But in other ways she has had a blind spot. First she had to appear before a congressional hearing to explain why her department paid $46,500 to a media consultant who tracked and rated journalists on the energy beat. Then came reports that she had spent millions of dollars on trade missions with retinues worthy of a head...