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...hour south of the Great Salt Lake, a two-lane blacktop crosses a cattle guard into a wild expanse of golden scrub grass. A few trailers and prefab houses, a collection of junked cars and a gas station that sells Spam and soda pop--such is the homeland of the Native American tribe known as the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes. At their peak, the Goshutes numbered 20,000. Today only a dozen of the band's 121 members live on the 18,000-acre reservation; the rest have scattered across the West in search of a better life...
...consortium recently halted further investment in the project. PFS's Parkyn expects other utilities, particularly those with decommissioned plants, to step in as the project comes online in phases. "It is cheaper to ship to Utah than to build a dry storage site," he says. "And how can you guard spent fuel forever after a plant shuts down?" He expects the 31 other states with nuclear fuel stored at home to support both Yucca and PFS projects...
...response to the congressional probe, Crye says he and several cruise-line officials met with the FBI, the Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection last month to "shore up any perceived deficiencies in reporting." At the same time, FBI assistant director Chris Swecker says he is considering development of a program to train cruise-industry security chiefs to improve evidence collection by using such tools as rape kits and blood tests for date-rape drugs...
...women’s basketball team, armed with the Ivy League’s finest freshman class, had more of it in a rookie-led 86-71 victory for the Crimson (12-14, 8-5 Ivy) over Columbia (5-21, 2-12). Harvard’s freshman tandem of guard Emily Tay and forward Katie Rollins erupted for 44 points—24 and 20, respectively—to spark the Crimson’s second-half effort against the struggling Lions. Rollins controlled the first half in the paint and Tay lit up the latter frame in an offensive...
...coming out of the gates in the second half. Columbia, on the strength of a 14-2 run to open the half, even took a brief two-point edge with 13:22 remaining before a resilient Harvard unit tied the game at 42. With seven straight points from shooting guard Jim Goffredo, the Crimson surged to a 49-42 lead it would not surrender...