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...opening the country to the free movement of labor from the E.U.'s 10 newest members - one E.U. commissioner warned a potential no vote would throw the Swiss membership of Schengen into doubt. Not everything can be expected to run like clockwork, even in Switzerland Race To The Bottom Is there still a market for the "people's car"? Volkswagen appears to think so. Reports in the European press last week claimed the German automaker is thinking of steering a no-frills, €3,000 run-around toward emerging markets such as China, even though a similar plan by rival...
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...Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station in southeastern Pennsylvania is a good place to see some of the enhancements ordered by the NRC after 9/11. The facility is newly ringed with 990 11-ton concrete blocks and $200-a-foot fencing topped with razor wire. Ten new guard towers--some six stories high--give armed guards broad vistas of possible approaches to the plant. "Since 9/11 we have more security officers here, and we've enhanced their weaponry," says Jeff Benjamin, a vice president of Exelon Corp., which operates the plant on the bank of the Susquehanna River. "We have...
Some nuclear-security officials privately call the design-basis threat a "funding basis threat," suggesting the threat has been scaled 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...
...They have great skill and great potential, and in the next three years we’re probably going to see Harvard at the top of the Ivy League rather than at the bottom,” co-captain Kelly Noon said...