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...mislabeled A.I.A. as "a rightwing watchdog" and Reed Irvine as a "militant conservative." Both A.I.A. and I are strong defenders of freedom. Your labels mislead rather than accurately describe our position. Reed Irvine, Chairman Accuracy in Academia Washington...
...everything went according to the terrorists' plan, radiation could begin spewing into the nighttime sky within 20 minutes, says Lochbaum, now a nuclear-safety engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nuclear-watchdog group. The lethal plume, drifting hundreds of miles downwind, could kill tens of thousands within a year and hundreds of thousands eventually...
...back to meet the bottom line of what the industry was willing to pay for security. "The NRC is basically saying that what they're doing is as much as you can expect private industry to pay for," says Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit watchdog group...
...traditionally used unarmed private guards. In May 2002 the National Police Agency sent armed members of its Gun Measures Corps to augment security around the clock at the 16 plants that house Japan's 53 reactors. But there has been little public outcry over the plants' vulnerability. Japanese nuclear watchdog groups are mostly also anti-gun. Armed guards will just "intimidate local residents and infringe on their rights," says Baku Nishio, co-director of Tokyo's Citizens' Nuclear Information Center. Japan does not legally require nuclear-plant workers to submit to background checks...
During his years in the trademark office, Calixto says he has seen a constant volume of trademark violations despite his watchdog eyes...