Word: containable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...major hurdles remain in the path of atomic energy. The first is the disposal of nuclear waste. Spent fuel rods contain radioactive isotopes that remain potentially lethal for thousands of years. The industry believes that there are several ways to handle the problem. The most promising is vitrification, a process that mixes the nuclear waste with glass; the material hardens into a black solid cylinder which is easy to store...
...eight states strung out along the Rocky Mountains are collectively the nation's most thinly settled (12 inhabitants per square mile, vs. 62 overall in the U.S.) and the most arid (12 in. rainfall, vs. 29 nationwide). Yet in addition to their wild beauty, these Mountain States contain such a magnificent array of national treasures that they are now being developed at a rate that may within a lifetime enrich them, or ruin them, or both...
...trial with the Gang, on separate charges of plotting to assassinate Mao The former general confessed that Jiang sent him to Shanghai to ransack the homes of her former friends. His mission according to the Chinese press, was to seek out and destroy letters, pictures and diaries that might contain embarrassing information about Madame Mao's early career as an actress in grade-B movies...
...negatives were available, they were meticulously developed to bring out all retrievable detail. This work has brought forth images of astonishing clarity; it sometimes seems possible to number the hairs in the President's beard. Another byproduct is mystery: Lincoln's craggy features and soft eyes still contain as many secrets as they reveal...
Harvard students helped the hotel staff contain the boisterous group of high-school students, who represented more than 100 schools in 30 states. Harvard chaperones also had to try to enforce the 12:30 a.m. curfew, set before the convention as a safety precaution...