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...Record" item on radioactive nuclear waste that will be buried in Yucca Mountain, Nev. [NOTEBOOK, Jan. 21], referred to the Energy Secretary as Abraham Spencer. The correct name is Spencer Abraham. In the same item, we said the buried waste will remain radioactive for 10,000 years. Instead, the figure 10,000 is the number of years of storage the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Environmental Protection Agency require to meet radiation-protection standards...
...scares swept the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio and the rural biweekly Dickson Herald in Tennessee. Fox News in New York revealed that a letter addressed to its president, Roger Ailes--opened, as was Brokaw's letter, by an assistant--had also contained a mysterious white powder. And in Reno, Nev., officials said a letter returned to a Microsoft Corp. office from Malaysia, apparently having been intercepted and tampered with, had initially tested positive for traces of anthrax...
...attitude of Naldur and his 850 rugged colleagues in the National Senior Professional Rodeo Association, a group of 40-and-up cowboys and cowgirls. The N.S.P.R.A.'s seven-month tour hits such cities as Buckeye, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and culminates with a national championship in Reno, Nev., in early November. The tour pits cowfolk from three age brackets (40s, 50s and 60-plus) in events such as bronco or bull riding, steer wrestling, calf roping and ladies' barrel racing. The events and rules of Senior Pro rodeo are the same as rodeo's major league, the Professional Rodeo...
...unofficial rodeo uniform--denim shirt, Wranglers and boots. Some participants say the weekly activity keeps them fit. "It's either this or sit at home and die of old age, so I'm not quitting until I'm 6 ft. under," says barrel racer Linda Short, 52, from Dayton, Nev...
...Frederic Remington have long sold for lofty sums, other artists of the Old West are now fetching record prices as well. In late July a 1908 watercolor of a grizzly, right, by Charles M. Russell sold for $2.3 million at the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction in Reno, Nev., the highest ever paid for a Russell. A painting by Philip R. Goodwin, which a Wisconsin woman said she couldn't unload for $5 at a garage sale, brought in $55,000. Overall, the five-hour auction racked up a record $14 million from investors who jetted in from...