| Nuke fuel recycling project a 'spectacular success' so far
Workers use remotely operated manipulators at shielded "hot cells" to chop up highly radioactive materials and evaluate the fuel composition and off-gases. They also test the capabilities to chemically dissolve the fuel mixture, extract certain elements and reformulate the different streams. The lab spent about $12 million on the project during the final six months of fiscal 2007, and the work is continuing at about the same level in 2008 - even though Congress dramatically slashed the Bush administration's overall funding request for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership program. "We will spend a little more than $12 million - maybe $15 million," Christensen said. "It's about the same money but a lower-level effort than before because it will be spread out (over an entire year)." Future funding is still uncertain.
Wild Card/Vacation Day 11 of 12
Only two more shopping days until I return to the final days of the City Council campaigns. Then, we'll have fun taking apart the campaigns. Any dirt yet? Any mudslinging. You know, the good stuff. Or is everyone behaving? My wife is now looking over my shoulder -- literally -- so I have to pretend that I'm just checking ball scores. See ya in two days. Here's Wild Card ... .
Dealing with disaster
BEIJING, Jan. 30 -- If the weather forecasts are accurate, the worst is yet to come for the central and southern areas of China. The seasonal human migration tides have revealed the vulnerability of our public transport network. From across the country, the foremost concern at the moment is how to deal the crowds gathering at all major venues of public transit, be they railway stations, airports, or long-distance bus stations. No matter how far they may drift away from traditional values, most of our compatriots remain sentimentally attached to the rich and highly symbolic lunar New Year's Eve dinner at home.
That the devastating snowfalls in the central and southern provinces have yet to dampen the fervent longing for a ticket home not only means extra hardship to get home, but will put more pressure on the fragile local passenger transport networks which have either be stretched to their extremes, or simply are in paralysis.
Officials welcome Korean delegates
The bottom line is bringing more high-wage jobs to Gwinnett. "By making our mark as one of the most business-friendly places for Korean businesses in the U.S.," Bass said, the county is actively recruiting international investment. "It's all about high-wage jobs for us," Bass said. Director appointed The Gwinnett Chamber also announced Tuesday that Scott Burkholder has been named director of small business development and programs. Founder of the local and long-distance telelphone company EO Telecom, LLC and a nationwide telecom construction company called Fiberworks, Inc., Burkholder has most recently been working as a consultant for small businesses and nonprofits. .
Schussing the black diamond: home prices go straight down
To a skier, schussing a black diamond means going straight down a very steep trail. Which pretty much describes what's happening to the housing market—and not just in ski country. Today, Standard & Poor's announced the biggest annual decline yet recorded in the S&P/Case-Shiller 10-City Composite Home Price Index. Prices in 10 big metro areas fell 6.7% from October 2006 through October 2007. That exceeds the 6.3% annual decline through April 1991, which was during a recession. (The 10-city series began in 1987.) S&P quotes Yale economist Robert J. Shiller as saying, "No matter how you look at these data, it is obvious that the current state of the single-family housing market remains grim." Shiller is an inventor of the index and chief economist of S&P's index partner, MacroMarkets.
Duke Prosecutor Removed From Lawsuit
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A federal judge has removed the disgraced Durham County prosecutor from a lawsuit filed by three Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of rape. Former District Attorney Mike Nifong filed for bankruptcy two weeks ago, citing more than $180 million in liabilities. Almost all of that amount is the estimated damages from pending litigation. U.S. District Judge James Beaty left open the possibility that Nifong could again become a defendant in the suit. Nifong won indictments against the three players after a stripper hired to perform at a March 2006 team party reported being raped, but the case unraveled in the face of the accuser's changing story and a lack of evidence. The state prosecutors who eventually took over the case dropped all charges and declared the players innocent victims of Nifong's ``tragic rush to accuse.'' He was later disbarred for his handling of the case and spent a night in jail for lying to a judge.
In Nevada, Obama's message of 'new politics' failed to deliver
Obama has no chance t owin from a sociological perspective. In addition to be representative of the black middle class and bourgeoisie, he cannot get ride of the Race, Gender and Class which divides our society. This is a lie and I think Obama is sociologically a liar and naive. His speeches are excellent into a church but not in politics. .
Educator Robert Marvin Chatman, 85
ROBERT Marvin Chatman, Philadelphia public-school teacher for 23 years, active church leader and Army veteran of World War II, died Thursday of brain cancer. He was 85 and lived in Wynnefield. He taught at a number of local schools and was a tailoring teacher at Germantown High School before his retirement in 1987. Robert was a man of many skills. At one time or another, he took a course for surgical technicians, studied oil-burner service, real estate and pattern-making. He had a dry-cleaning establishment, was a mortician and had numerous jobs as a handyman - all with the aim of better supporting his family. He was born in Honea Path, S.C., to Howard L. and Marie Lewis Chatman. He got his early education in Honea Path and attended the Colored Normal, Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College, now South Carolina State University at Orangeburg.
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