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...firsthint of trouble would probably be no more than shadows flitting through the darkness outside one of the nation's nuclear power reactors. Beyond the fencing, black-clad snipers would take aim at sentries atop guard towers ringing the site. The guards tend to doubt they would be safe in their bullet-resistant enclosures. They call such perches iron coffins, which is what they could become if the terrorists used deadly but easily obtainable .50-cal. sniper rifles...
...Physicist Kenneth Bergeron, who spent most of 25 years at Sandia National Laboratories researching nuclear-reactor safety, says plant operators focus security efforts on keeping bad guys out. They assume that no one with malicious intent will wind up at the controls and thus do not build in fail-safe mechanisms that would prevent a saboteur from engineering a catastrophe. As a result, says Paul Blanch, a nuclear-safety expert who oversaw reactors for Northeast Utilities in Connecticut for 25 years, "a knowledgeable terrorist inside a control room can cause a meltdown in fairly short order...
...history. Her 168 hits and 94 career runs scored both rank fifth for Harvard players all-time. Most prominent, though, is Stefanchik’s track record on the base paths. Her 71 stolen bases in 79 attempts are both school bests, records that seem supremely safe for years to come...
Apart from the “Viva” shirts, students decorated dorm room doors with “Summers Safe Space Stickers” which resembled the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance safe space stickers distributed at the beginning of annual ‘Gaypril’ month...
...Harvard does a very good job making ordinary things fail-safe,” Rosenblum says. “If you think that genuine academic advising is important, putting together a program that makes intellectual sense, making sure students don’t miss courses that they’re interested in...it’s difficult to make that fail-safe...