Japan seals off reactor leak at Tokaimura plant
Uncontrolled nuclear reaction at a uranium processing facility in Tokaimura, Japan, was halted early today after a radiation leak injured three workers and possibly contaminated 34 others. About 310000 residents within six miles were told to stay home as officials evacuated nearby neighbors and the gas plume prompted domestic and international concern.
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Toxaimura
Japan
Masaru Hashimoto
Washington
Clinton
Tokaimura
Tokyo
Pennies Rally Raises Over 800 for Timmy Adams Fight
Prairie Park School students collected more than 800 pennies to support Timmy Adams, a third grader battling abdominal cancer at St. Jude. A local woman donated coins from her late daughter's piggy bank, and a Topeka resident delivered one cent pieces to Lawrence. Buckets of Lincoln pennies were left outside the school as children combed homes for donations.
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Ant. Richardson
Journal- Wola
Tonya Waters
Prairie Park
Timmy Adams
Memphis
Tenn
Studen
Capitol Federal
Heather Goodlett
Stacey Durbin
Molly Adams
Timmy
Daniel McPherson
Vienney Phiomavong
Prairie Park School
Bank
Topeka
Lawrence
Abraham Lincoln
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Cohen orders investigation of Korean killings
Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered a top level review into mass killings of Korean civilians at No Gun Ri in 1950. The inquiry will scrutinize AP findings and interview soldiers who were on duty. Caldera will lead the all-encompassing review, expected to take at least one year. Clinton and Seoul support probes to restore trust.
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Washington
William Cohen
U.S
No Gun Ri
Associated Press
Cohen
Army
Louis Caldera
Caldera
Pentagon
Metric mixup doomed Mars orbiter loss
Los Angeles AP reports NASA linked the Mars Climate Orbiter loss to an English to metric unit error. Lockheed Martin provided pounds force instead of newtons for thruster data, causing navigation miscalculations over 10 months and a mission that never reached Mars.
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Los Angeles
Mars
NASA
Space Agency
Red Planet
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lockheed Martin Astronautics
Colorado
JPL
Glitches Delay Kansas child support payments system woes
Glitches in Kansas' new 42 million child support computer system cause three to four day delays for thousands of families. SRS spokesman John Garlinger cites data conversion issues and misrouted checks as the main causes, with most problems corrected within three days.
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SRS
Kansas
John Garlinger
State Department of Health and Environment
SRS’ Division of
Garlinger
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