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...based on worst-case calculations, he believed the "Yankee Rowe vessel is quite brittle" and was therefore unsafe to operate even for the remainder of its license. The precise extent of the problem is uncertain because the utility has run out of easily accessible test samples of the original steel used in building the vessel. Ideally, such samples are periodically examined for hidden cracks, allowing scientists to determine how much embrittlement has occurred. Although Randall's opinion was a minority view, it electrified the plant's critics. The utility has promised to take new weld samples from within the reactor...
...lacks the heroic mien -- steel forged in Camelot -- of central casting's great military strategists: Wellington, MacArthur, Cordesman. His stare, which can be ferocious, is undercut by a fretful brow; the small, almost gentle features are stranded in his moon of a face. And no fellow shaped like a nose tackle is going to cut a chic figure in those desert jammies. You look for John Wayne, and you find Jonathan Winters crossed with Willard Scott: a lunch- pail lug who should be shambling into the Cheers bar to a chorus of "Norm!" Norm? Is that any name...
...soldiers can find confidence in the Bible, wouldn't an armor-plated one offer a bit more? Riverside Book & Bible of Iowa Falls has seen sales of its steel-jacketed Bibles surge as families order them for relatives in the gulf. The company's new Good Book ($19.95), which is not guaranteed bulletproof, comes inscribed with a verse from Psalms 28: "The Lord is my strength and my shield." Meanwhile, the 200,000 free Bibles given to soldiers by the International Bible Society have been camouflaged in desert colors. One such book sits on allied commander Norman Schwarzkopf's desk...
...reeled in Northeastern oarsman Craig Wigginton over the last 500m of the race, and won the prized hammer. Awarded in recognition of the strength required to beat an ergometer into submission, and not in the pejorative sense in which the term would be applied on the water, this hardened-steel trophy epitomizes the deadly frivolity of the event. Four other Crimson rowers competed in the final...
...wasteland, lies the precarious terrain where fine young actresses can do fine work. Just now that acreage is the property of Julia Roberts, currently starring in Sleeping with the Enemy. Her combination of girl-next-door beauty, canny vulnerability and great good fortune in roles quickly begat hit movies (Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman), which beget a first look at the hottest scripts. Which means that every other young actress gets sloppy seconds. Says Carrie Fisher: "I wouldn't want to look over my shoulder at Julia Roberts." But some of Roberts' peers don't. They look harder for parts, look...