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...plan has sparked widespread resistance, with opponents ranging from a few tribal holdouts to the Governor of Utah. The state has filed suit in federal court to void the NRC license on the grounds that the spent fuel would sit dangerously close to an Air Force training path. F-16 fighter jets roar overhead on 7,000 sorties a year. Should one crash into the steel-and-concrete casks, state attorneys argue, cancer-causing radiation could waft over Salt Lake City. Moreover, the state says, used fuel rods, parked aboveground, would be a target for car bombers or airplane hijackers...
...boom continued to be widespread. According to data collected from mortgages involving Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae, which OFHEO oversees, all but one of the 275 major metropolitan areas the agency surveyed showed rising values from 2004 to 2005. The most notable gains were in the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale area of Arizona, where home prices have already almost doubled in the last five years. Last year, prices rose again by nearly 40%. Arizona's hot housing market helped push it, and its neighboring Mountain states - Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana and Utah - to the top of OFHEO's list...
...Ghraib prison scandal from ever happening again. But in a scathing 48-page report released on Monday, Amnesty International concludes that whatever reforms have been put into effect are clearly not doing the job: Mistreatment of detainees in Iraq, particularly by Iraqi security forces, is still widespread, Amnesty argues...
...troubled Russian republic's Prime Minister; in the capital Grozny. Allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov became Chechnya's de facto premier after Sergei Abramov?who quit as P.M. last week?was injured in a car crash last year. Human rights groups accuse militia commanded by Kadyrov of widespread abuses, especially "disappearances" of thousands of suspected rebels, charges the new premier denies...
Endowing these programs should not be hard, since many alumni would be proud to support such an option. There would likely be widespread approval both from students and the general public. The benefit to Harvard admissions would be instantaneous. Most importantly, undergraduates would have a greater opportunity to get a solid general education in addition to all of the other academic benefits that Harvard offers...