Word: siting
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...million years and necessitates heavy shielding to protect any human or animal life that may come near it. The U.S. Congress believed it had conquered the problem of where to put such waste when in 1987 it ordered the Department of Energy to focus on building a national dump site in Nevada. By 2003, the Government promised, spent fuel from the country's 110 commercial nuclear reactors would be trundled across states and safely buried deep within Yucca Mountain, an isolated peak about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. But that forecast, like an earlier one predicting a national dump...
Graciousness, Midwestern Style: The extended weekend in Nebraska was the site of two Harvard losses. After falling to host Nebraska, Harvard played well enough to upset All-American Ray Dudley and his Air Force cohorts, but the slick senior hit an off-balance jumper at the buzzer to seize the victory for the Falcons...
Banker said the Roka Japanese restaurant retains a liquor license for the Eliot St. site, a non-transferable privilege. This give Roka a powerful incentive to move back Banker said...
This year I have a new perspective on the NIMBY phenomenon. I live in Quincy House, and my bedroom looks directly not the Dewolfe Street construction site, where Harvard Real Estate is building two five-story structures eventually to house University affiliates. Sure, Harvard could use the housing space; but frankly, I'm sick of the noise, and I wish it weren't in my back yard...
LIFE near a construction site is not without its rewards. I have enjoyed playing detective to figure exactly how the pile driver works and, for that matter, figuring out what the piles...