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To fight fracking, what Pennsylvania needs is a masterpiece
Movies can have a tremendous impact on society, if they're skillfully made. "Triumph of the Will" was a stunning documentary that helped Adolf Hitler consolidate power. "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Good Will Hunting (movie), An Inconvenient Truth (movie), Gasland (movie)
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Wednesday Morning Coffee: Our Rick's Very Big Night.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. OK. We admit it. We didn't see this one coming. When we left the office last night, we figured that all Rick Santorum had to do was not get totally blown out in Iowa in...... -
Nuclear power: Feds may OK first reactors since Three Mile Island
Nation NowGeorgia nuclear power plant: Federal regulators are scheduled to vote on whether to approve construction plans for two Georgia nuclear reactors; the reactors would be the first nuclear plants built since the 1979 meltdown at Three Mile Island.... -
Exclusive: With ‘Super 8,’ J.J. Abrams & Co. give ‘Spielberg Kids’ their comeback
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelIn the early 1980s, Steven Spielberg — as a director and producer — served up gangs of daring, resourceful, fun-loving moppets who came to define their generation. He became a Norman Rockwell of the big screen, presenting American suburbia... -
Mike Gray dies at 77; co-wrote 'China Syndrome' screenplay
Mike Gray, an author, activist and documentarian who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "The China Syndrome," the provocative 1979 film about a cover-up at a nuclear power plant, died Tuesday of heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home, his...
Tags: The Second City, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Movies, Heart Failure, Heavy Engineering
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NRC raising oversight of Pennsylvania Three Mile Island reactor
ReutersApril 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said on Tuesday it will increase oversight of Exelon Corp's 805-megawatt Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, to ensure that safety equipment is protected from flooding....Tags: Nuclear Accidents, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Nuclear Power, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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CNN continues acquisition spree with 'Pandora's Promise'
CNN Films is stepping up its acquisition efforts. One week after landing the television rights to the Penny Lane documentary “Our Nixon,” the network has acquired domestic television broadcast rights to the Sundance film selection “...
Tags: Pandora Media, Inc., Movies, Sundance Film Festival, CNN (tv network), Television Industry
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Damage at two Japan nuclear plants prompts evacuations
Los Angeles TimesJapanese officials struggled Saturday to avert the possibility of a meltdown at two major nuclear power plants whose emergency cooling systems were damaged by Friday's earthquake and tsunami. Emergency officials ordered the evacuation Saturday of all...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Emergency Incidents, Disasters, Princeton University
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Chambersburg Area Middle School North hosts emergency drill
waynesboro@herald-mail.comAs teenage athletes left Chambersburg Area Middle School North on Wednesday evening, firetrucks and other emergency vehicles descended on the parking lot for a drill related to an mock attack at a nuclear power plant. Emergency services officials...Tags: American Red Cross, FEMA, Relief and Aid Organizations, Health and Safety at School, Franklin County (Pennsylvania)
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PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer
Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...Tags: China Earthquake (2010), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michael Douglas, Jack Lemmon, University of Iowa
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Tom Roberts, violin collector and anonymous Smithsonian donor
TOM ROBERTS, 75, Smithsonian's 'Mr. Anonymous' The name "Tom Roberts" appears on no plaque in the Smithsonian Institution's musical instruments collection. At no concert, even when Mr. Roberts was in attendance, did Smithsonian chamber musicians...Tags: Benito Mussolini, Library of Congress, Politics, Georgetown, Charity
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Cheap natural gas, caution curb nuclear energy
It's radioactive, its plants can be expensive to build and it scares the bejeebers out of many, but to some, nuclear energy is the future.
That may well be true, but for now, the race to that future has slowed to a cautious crawl as regulators have...Tags: China Earthquake (2010), Environmental Issues, Energy, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Cancer
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