Commentary on NEI influence over Yucca Mountain waste plan
Christopher Rueggeberg notes NEI PAC money flows to Sen. Bob Smith and Rep. Charlie Bass and to many in Congress from 1997 to 2002. The piece argues NEI aims to push a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, highlighting lobbying, staff perks, and safety concerns regarding transport and geology.
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U.S
Bob Smith
Charlie Bass
Nuclear Energy Institute
Yucca Mountain
Nevada
Sen. Smith
Bass
Congress
NEI
Washington
Public Citizen
Neipac
Senate
House of Representatives
House
John Sununu
Las Vegas
Department of Energy
Maine Yankee
Seabrook Station
New Hampshire
America
Seacoast Anti-Pollution League
Mobile Chernobyl
Yucca
Spencer Abraham
DOE
U.S. Senate
David Freeman
Sierra Magazine
Unit 2
Seabrook
Dick Cheney
Bushs Fit Pitch Masks Rough Policy Debate
Molly Ivins notes President Bush's pep and personal fitness push as a contrast to contested Middle East policy. She cites Bush's election rhetoric, Rove influence, Arafat and Chavez incidents, and calls for fitness as a metaphor while criticizing vague policy. Ivins urges practical action and upbeat rhetoric, ending with a personal trainer metaphor.
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Nice
Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
Kennedy
Texas
Karl Rove
al Gore
Yasser Arafat
Arafat
Jimmy Carter
Florida
Hugo Chavez
Venezuela
Chavez
Middle East
Robert Novak
Ariel Sharon
Janis Ozolina’s Olympic Javelin Life and Family Ties
Latvia’s Janis Ozolina, 63, reflects on a life in javelin marked by technique over size. His son Voldemars, 18th in Sydney 2000, shares the athletic lineage, with both parents Olympic gold medalists Elvira Ozolina and Janis’s lifelong journeys to every Games since Tokyo.
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Janis
Voldemars
Sydney
Australia
Elvira Ozolina
Rome
Tokyo
Riga
Why readers ignore manuals and want fewer features
Dave Barry jokes that manufacturers push confusing warnings and excess features prompting two common fixes. He notes lawyers, lawsuits, and consumer irony, arguing readers skip manuals due to warnings, too many features, and male pride, with a punchline urging simpler, safer manuals and even naked model photos.
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Washington Post
Iraq
Anna Kournikova
Water, Trade Rules, and the Fight Over Local Water Rights
New Hampshire activists warn that global trade rules could limit local water protections as privatization pressure grows. The piece cites NAFTA WTO and GATS effects, cites Save Our Groundwater, Bechtel in Bolivia, and notes Denise Hart voices public trust concerns while Arnie Alpert of the American Friends Service Committee advocates collective action.
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U.S
United States
New Hampshire
NAFTA
WTO
The
Americas
California
Denise Hart
Barrington
Seacoast
San Diego
Bolivia
Bechtel Corp
American Friends Service Committee
Alliance For Democracy
Arnie Alpert
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