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...Academy of Sciences raised a new issue when it released a report in April assessing the dangers posed by the 43,600 tons of spent nuclear fuel now resting in cooling pools at all 64 power plants across the country. Choking off the water that cools these pools could trigger a radioactive fire that some scientists believe could cause as much death and disease as a reactor meltdown. The panel of the N.A.S., which is private but has a mandate to advise the Federal Government on scientific matters, said it couldn't determine whether the plants and their spent-fuel...
...waited for his plane to Europe, Lloyd Parry stalled. Maybe it was just cold feet; maybe it was a foreign correspondent's instinct for impending mayhem. He canceled his flight and headed into the city, just in time to catch a student protest that would turn violent and help trigger the beginning of the end of Suharto's three-decade reign over the country. It was May 1998, and Indonesia was about to go insane...
...this particular sacrilege? Why, in the foul context of Abu Ghraib and subsequent (confirmed) reports of female interrogators tormenting pious detainees with sexual come-ons, should Newsweek's item have helped trigger violence? The full answer involves Pakistani politics and flagging Afghan goodwill. But the short one concerns a religious force often mismeasured in the West: Islam's extreme reverence for the Koran and fury at its defilement...
Many cadets' first reflex, he says, is to hold a pistol to the farmer's head. McKinney challenges them: Well, are you willing to pull the trigger, then? And wouldn't that endanger the lives of some of your men if the farmer's tribe wanted revenge? If he still refuses and you don't pull the trigger now, will you have lost credibility with your team...
...last summer's floods in the eastern state of Bihar; in Patna, India. Last week, Bihar's top official, Chief Secretary K.A.H. Subramanian, announced he would be filing a First Information Report with the police based on his administration's internal inquiry into the affair, a move expected to trigger a criminal investigation of Goswami and others. The ex-magistrate, who quit the civil service in January, denies all allegations and says that he will fight the case...