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...Ukraine spewed lethal radiation killing at least 30 people and affecting thousands more across the then-Soviet Union and Europe. On April 26, 1986 the blast at unit no. 4 caused a nuclear meltdown, with blazes burning at temperatures of up to 5000 Fahrenheit, or twice that of molten steel. The reactor burned for two weeks slowly releasing dangerous radioactivity into the air. The radiation, carried by the wind, wound its lethal path across the Soviet Union's best farmland north toward Scandinavia. By week's end, an ominous pall of radiation had spread across Eastern Europe and toward...
According to the renovation plans, workers will soon remove the roof trusses and will install steel into the Great Hall...
...watch television with an open mind. No longer will a soft-voiced speaker accuse another candidate of egregious crimes while somber music plays in the background. No more will opposing candidates be pictured in black-and-white photographs that look like mug shots. No longer will we have to steel ourselves against advertising lest we react too favorably to words that twist the truth. We're done with that...but only in the political process...
...alone in attacking the use of taxpayer funds in the relocation sweepstakes. "We're spending billions of dollars to fund the moving van," says state senator Charles Horn of Ohio, which trucked more than $2.4 billion last year to lure or keep companies in industries ranging from banking to steel. "In the process, we're draining our budgets in education, research and technology--the very things our future depends...
...fact, this was an odd TV moment when parody and plug became one. The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show was intended to be an ironic resurrection of 1950s-style brand-name TV shows like The Lux Video Theatre or The U.S. Steel Hour. The deal originally struck between ABC and Pepsico, Taco Bell's parent company, was that each week a different member of the Pepsi family would serve as "both title and target" for Carvey's wry satire, positioning the sponsor as quite the cool dude for rope-a-doping a few edgy punches...