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...nuclear power plant it can spell catastrophe. For that reason, officials of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission took swift action last week. While investigating a tip, they learned that control-room operators and supervisors at the Peach Bottom nuclear plant near Delta, Pa., have been regularly sleeping at the switch for at least the past five months. Calling the power station, which is 35 miles northeast of Baltimore, an "immediate threat to the public health and safety," NRC officials ordered the plant shut down -- the first such action taken by the agency because of operator deficiencies...
Although it is possible to switch colleges between years, very few students choose to take this option housing officers say. Freshman Jamison Williams, a member of the housing committee at Yale's Ezra Stiles College, says that this year only eight students of the college's 400 had transferred out of Stiles, which students describe as one of Yale's least-likes colleges...
...students and administrators say that after freshman year students are free to switch clusters, and often, if they receive low lottery numbers or if their cluster is particularly popular, they cannot get a room in the same cluster and have to move...
...competition in the credit-card business intensifies, many lenders are blatantly trying to lure customers from rivals. People's Bank of Connecticut, which charges an unusually low 11.5% interest on its MasterCard, will lend people the money they need to pay off other credit-card balances and switch to its card. Buffalo-based Empire of America bank now offers its customers a novel choice. They can pay 18% interest on purchases with a Visa Classic card and enjoy the traditional 30-day grace period, or they can pay just 13.7% on a Visa Lite and tote up interest from...
...turn off the main power switch in the lecture hall and accidently kill all the electricity...