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...stakes could scarcely be higher. The toll of the 9/11 attacks would probably pale alongside a successful attack on a nuclear plant near a major metropolitan area. A recent study by Edwin Lyman, a physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, estimates that if terrorists triggered a meltdown at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, 35 miles north of New York City, as many as 44,000 people could die from radiation poisoning within a year, and as many as 518,000 could perish eventually from cancers spawned by the attack. Millions of people in the greater New York area...
This was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Harvard sailing team. Graduation was supposed to have taken its toll, loosening the Crimson’s iron grip on the Fowle Trophy, the honor given to the best all-around squad in the nation—the award Harvard had won the past four years...
...addition to the impact on student enrollment, the string of professor departures dating back to West has also taken a toll on the Af Am department’s public image...
...root of the problem stems from Bush’s belief that November’s election gave him the political capital to pursue an unabashedly far right agenda. The Bush administration’s resulting political arrogance has taken a heavy toll on its own political authority...
...eventually, the wearying process of advancing to the Final Fours of both the singles and doubles draws took its toll...