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...Federal Government has spent $1 billion since the 1960s in the search for a site that is environmentally -- and politically -- safe to bury high-level radioactive wastes from nuclear reactors. When it became apparent that the Department of Energy was dawdling over a hot issue, Congress in 1982 ordered DOE to get a deep nuclear dump in operation by 1998. Last year the department narrowed its candidates to three Western sites: Deaf Smith County, Texas; Yucca Mountain, Nev.; and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington. The deadline of 1998 looked easily attainable...
...last week DOE announced that it was arbitrarily postponing activation of such a site for an additional five years, until 2003, when some 40,000 tons / of the waste will have accumulated. The proclaimed reasons: DOE needs the extra time for more research, to consult with states and Indian tribes, to meet licensing requirements. As with the federal deficit, it appeared that DOE has succumbed to a classic Washington cop-out: if a problem is difficult, let the next generation deal with...
...company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone." So wrote Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, the once bucolic site that provided his retreat from civilization. If Thoreau returned today, he would be appalled: last year some 350,000 visitors swarmed through the 400-acre state park near Concord, Mass., in an attempt to recapture the writer's sense of tranquillity...
...known to customers from far beyond tiny La Grange as the Chicken Ranch, the most familiar bordello in the U.S. has been out of business since 1973. But now La Grange (pop. 3,768) is clucking over plans by Houston Contractor Todd Hoffman to erect a museum on the site and hold a "Chicken Fest," featuring big-name entertainers and a barbecue cookoff with a $40,000 first prize. Mayor Charlie Jungmichel has called Hoffman's proposal a "slap in the face to the people of our county. I think our morals are better than that...
...only catch is that you have to move your new domicile away from its current location--a site on which the university plans to build a 400-bad dorm starting this summer...