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...experience with shelf life and death. His personal recommendation for dorm-room shelves is the jicama. "It's like a potato inside. You can eat it like a mini carrot, and dip it in things." Other non-perishable fresh foods tend to be roots with dense textures, including the yucca, celery root and horseradish...
After more than $2 billion and a decade of study, the Energy Department gave an amber light on Friday to proceed with the development of an underground nuclear waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert. The department cautioned that some issues still need to be resolved before a final decision is reached in 2001. "The report indicates that Yucca Mountain will be the site," says TIME science writer Michael Lemonick, "but now get ready for years of litigation from anti-nuclear activists...
...government has long maintained that Yucca Mountain is almost certainly a safe waste disposal site because it is geologically inactive," adds Lemonick. "Opponents have just as steadfastly maintained that almost certainly is not good enough." Both sides have produced sound scientific arguments and evidence to buttress their case -- which suggests that Yucca Mountain is not the real issue. "The real issue," says Lemonick, "is the future of nuclear facilities. If no permanent place to store nuclear waste is found, these facilities will have to be shut down." That is ultimately the aim of the activists, and a prospect the government...
...waitstaff is pleasant and helpful. Waitress Michelle Rossetto knows her way around monkfish and red wine (not necessarily together, though) and isn't afraid to share her personal opinion on Yucca con Mojo when asked. She arrives at the table bearing crusty bread with butter and small ramekins of salt and black peppercorns and refills the water glasses frequently. Discreet is the name of the game here--one second your water has dipped below the gulp mark and the next, voila, it's replenished without a bit of interruption to the conversation or jostling of an elbow. The waiters...
...case of NIMBY writ large, no state wants such a site in its backyard. As the nation's stockpile of spent fuel reached 30,000 tons, activists seized the issue as a way to hobble the industry, and the Energy Department announced that a permanent facility planned for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, wouldn't be ready until 2010; Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary now puts its chances of opening at no better than fifty-fifty. Bills to create temporary sites are stalled in both houses of Congress...