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...site, "a lot of it was bad news, but it made us feel truly part of the team." To keep up morale, Fields instituted flexible hours, on-site day care and time off to care for a family member. Once a month he would have lunch with plant workers to solicit suggestions for improvements...
...Economic Advancement Foundation), a nonprofit organization established by the North Carolina General Assembly to distribute half the state's settlement revenues, spent $15,000 for a tobacco-history video. Perhaps more egregiously, it granted rural Nash County $400,000 for water and sewer engineering to attract a tobacco-processing plant. "The money is going in a circle here," says Don Carrington, vice president of the John Locke Foundation, a state-government watchdog group...
Proponents of the plan say the water and sewer improvements will expand service along a five-mile undeveloped stretch, and the plant will bring 1,100 jobs to a region where unemployment is above 10%. "This is a perfectly allowable use of the funds," says John Gessaman, president of the economic-development corporation that applied for the grant. It may be perfectly legal, but then again, so is smoking...
...soul." From Arthus-Bertrand's perspective, his most powerful photograph is not of a Brazilian slum, a Philippine village inundated by mud or a quake-ravaged Turkish town. Rather, it is a view of the Ukrainian city of Pripiat in snow. Three kilometers from the now-closed Chernobyl nuclear plant, Pripiat is a ghost town, emptied of its 50,000 people. His feelings about the planet, though, are perhaps symbolized by the main photo used to promote the exhibition. Taken from above a mangrove swamp in Voh, New Caledonia, it captures a huge, naturally formed green heart...
...hidden deep inside the machinery, heavily shielded by lead and not something you could slip under a coat and walk off with. There is plenty of radioactive material that is more accessible, but it is less toxic and would pose less of a risk if it were stolen and planted in a bomb. Nuclear waste from military and power-plant operations is another source of worry, but that material is kept fiercely guarded, never more so than since Sept...