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...atomic revival. At the same time, the price of building a plant - all that concrete and steel - has risen dramatically in recent years, while the nuclear workforce has aged and shrunk. Nuclear supporters like Moore who argue that atomic plants are much cheaper than renewables tend to forget the sky-high capital costs, not to mention the huge liability risk of an accident - the insurance industry won't cover a nuclear plant, so it's up to government to do so. Conservatives like Republican presidential candidate John McCain tend to promote nuclear power because they don't think carbon-free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Nuclear Power Viable? | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

...their teacher Shifu (Dustin Hoffman). Then, through plot contortions even more acrobatic than anything the Furious Five have demonstrated, Po is declared the new kung fu hero. Shifu is aghast: this clown can't be taught anything. Yet Oggway believes that the accident that dropped Po out of the sky was no accident at all. The roly-poly panda is the one chosen to battle the evil master Tin Lung (Ian McShane), who'll be breaking out of prison any moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kung Fu Panda: Wise Heart, Sweet Art | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...American Revolution is still in progress," says Thomas M. Daly, president of the center, which grew out of the century-old Valley Forge Historical Society. "We have this significant deficit in the understanding of our founding principles. These freedoms we have didn't just fall out of the sky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Building Battle at Valley Forge | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...Russians have put a little ball up in the air, and it seems that the United States is pretty excited about it. “We aren’t trying to win a race,” the scientists insist, rather half-heartedly staring into the sky. “No sir, it doesn’t mean the Russians are ahead in the missile techniques, no sir, it doesn?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Music of the Spheres | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...candidates have been frequent visitors to Big Sky Country. Both showed up on April 5 for the state Democrats' annual Mansfield-Metcalf Dinner at the Civic Center in Butte (where the last major event was December's spectacular funeral ceremony for native son Evel Knievel). Obama has been running prime-time TV ads in Montana markets for the past month, the latest using footage of his Montana appearances. Clinton's cash-strained campaign, meanwhile, waited until just a few days before the vote to place her spots. But she has also been represented in the state by surrogates like husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montana: The Democrats' Last Stand | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

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