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Granted, the dangers faced by a few thousand Vermonters may not be panic-inducing, but the problems with Vermont Yankee are representative of the dangers of many nuclear power plants. Since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has required nuclear plants to gauge their vulnerabilities to a terrorist attack. (NCR ran similar tests in the 1990s but the results were so embarrassingly bad that the tests were discontinued. Safety first.) Vermont Yankee is not alone in failing the mock attacks, but it does have the honor of having “the largest number of weaknesses of any reactor that...
...government routinely confers national honor on directors, actors, and editors of such “clever” creations of art. Until, hopefully soon, globalization corrects the situation, claims of “literary prodigies” of Indian origin will have to be verified and re-verified a thousand times. SAMPATHKUMAR IYANGAR April 29, 2006 Ahmedabad, India
...That afternoon, Jones poured out nearly a thousand cups of Kool Aid laced with cyanide and, in an excruciating parody of the Eucharist, told the faithful to take and drink. They were committing, he said, "an act of revolutionary suicide, protesting the conditions of an inhumane world." In the detritus of the ensuing carnage, a note was "If nobody understands, it matters not, I am ready to die now. Darkness settle on Jonestown on its last day on earth...
...Ariad’s dispute—is used by more than 200 compounds, including aspirin, according to Science magazine. Perhaps anticipating a future lawsuit, biotech company Amgen last week filed a pre-emptive motion asking a Delaware court to find Ariad’s patent invalid. The Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based firm also sought a ruling that its drug products do not infringe on the patent. Eli Lilly will contest the verdict by asking the judge to overturn the jury’s decision, the Indianapolis-based company announced yesterday. If its request is denied, the firm will appeal...
...journalism and is not serious news that merits space in the paper. It only makes us come across as petty and jealous, they say. But what these critics must remember is that Viswanathan is a public figure, and her book is a work publicly available to everyone. Five hundred thousand dollars is a serious amount of money, and plagiarism is an even more serious offense. With the press she received in the run-up to publication, she has become a prominent figure at Harvard and in the book-publishing industry. The Crimson normally does not report on plagiarism committed...