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...nuclear bombs began exploding in the Nevada desert in 1951, when Sheldon Nisson was five. "They used to tell us to get up and watch the blasts," recalls his mother Helen, who still lives in Washington, Utah, some 125 miles downwind from the test site. "We saw the clouds go over all the time. Our children played outside. All the while, the Government kept saying that it wouldn't hurt us." But when the last of 102 mushroom clouds rose above the desert in 1962, Sheldon Nisson was dead from leukemia. His cancer, along with that of nine other...
...about physics, medicine, probability theory and Greek philosophy with the legal issues at stake. "This case is concerned with atoms, with government, with people, with legal relationships and with social values," he wrote. As evidence that atomic tests cause cancer, Jenkins cited several studies, including one of thousands of Utah residents who lived near the testing area: among those residents the incidence of cancer is 50% greater than normal. Some of the malignancy, Jenkins wrote, "is demonstrated to have been caused more likely than not by nation-state conducted open-air nuclear events...
...Nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada site from 1951 to 1992 is alleged to have caused tens of thousands of cancers in residents of Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Idaho. Although the findings are disputed, the 1990 federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act provided compassionate payments to some victims. In announcing the test, James Tegnelia, director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, told reporters the blast "is the first time in Nevada that you?ll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons." Later, after a rebuke from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Tegnelia retracted the description...
...says, "this is one of the biggest examples of hedging your bets that I've ever seen." But women who have tried them say the arrangements offer them perks too. "I do this to save money," says Veronica Verve, 28, who moved to Los Angeles from Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2004 and since then has lived with four different men in exchange for cooking their meals. "I like to be mobile and don't want to live in a dumpy apartment that I could actually afford...
...case, Perry v. Navajo Nation Labor Commission (NNLC), began in June 2005 when Melinda Perry brought an action before the NNLC alleging that she had been wrongfully discharged. She had been employed at the Utah Navajo Development Council...