The Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump is mired in inertia. The project dates back three decades and has not solved the problem of nuclear waste. Read full article > >

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Yucca Mountain: A waste of a nuclear dump

As premieres go, it wasn’t exactly promising. When Leonard Bernstein unleashed his sprawling Third Symphony — titled “Kaddish” — on the American public in January 1964, the critics practically trampled one another to get in the first jabs. It wasn’t Bernstein’s music that drew the ridicule — it was the cringe-inducing narration he had written, around which the symphony revolves. A Kaddish is a Jewish prayer associated with mourning, and Bernstein had dedicated the piece to John F. Kennedy, assassinated the previous November. Bernstein tried to grapple with huge spiritual issues in the work, angrily confronting God and demanding an answer to the problem of evil in the world. “A lava-flow of cliches,” judged one critic. Read full article > >

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Samuel Pisar’s ‘Kaddish’: A warning to a world out of control

Adapted from a recent online discussion. Discuss it with your therapist anyway, by stating: “I have a lot of insecurities about my marriage and I find it really difficult to discuss this stuff with you.” If you don’t think you can say it in person, call before your next session and leave it on a voice mail. You have a trained listener in place, so it’s essential that you start telling the truth. Your hesitation to speak and accept uncomfortable truths is part of the problem in your marriage, on both sides. Be honest. Risk looking bad. Read full article > >

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Carolyn Hax: Dealing with newlywed insecurities

Just when you think she’s out, Sarah Palin jumps right back into the fire. The former Alaska governor-and recent mother-of-the groom-said Friday on Fox News that she has the “fire in my belly” to run for president. “I think my problem is that I do have…

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Palin: I Have ‘Fire in My Belly’

More innovative technology is being brought in to combat the problem of cable theft. Network Rail says last year, passengers were delayed by more than six thousand hours because of the problem

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VIDEO: Secret cameras catch rail cable thieves

Nitrogen pollution costs the EU up to £280bn a year, a report says – and the problem would be greatly helped if people ate less meat.

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Nitrogen pollution ‘costs £280bn’

Facebook users who are being bullied or abused can now report the problem to friends, as well as site moderators.

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Friends to police Facebook safety

Well, this is one response to a shooting rampage. Arizona is one of about a dozen states considering solving the problem of school campus shootings by arming their academies. Arizona currently has three bills in the works that would allow professors…

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AZ Lawmakers: Let’s Arm Campuses!

High food and fuel costs slow Japanese deflation in January, but analysts warn the problem has not dissipated.

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Oil and food slow Japan deflation

A petition from three Republican lawmakers is novel: all three lawmakers have expressed skepticism about the reality of human-caused global warming, yet in their brief they say that the political system, not the courts, should deal with the problem.

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Green: Republicans Want Courts Out of Climate

In the first “Solutions: Making Government Work” column, editor Dina Rasor outlines an essential first step toward regaining control over the notoriously corrupt Department of Defense contracting system. It’s not going to be easy, but if the political will can be summoned to take this step, voters may handsomely reward politicians who show bravery on this issue. To attack the problem, Rasor draws on her three decades in the trenches of the battle between the military-industrial complex and those who seek to cut waste and punish fraud. read more

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Solution: The Pentagon Continues to Overpay for Everything; Let’s Fix It

The head of a task force dealing with metal thefts in Wales says the problem threatens to “fracture social cohesion”.

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Metal thefts put public ‘at risk’

Governments need to step up the help they give ISPs to tackle the problem of hijacked home computers, says a report.

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PC vaccine needed in botnet fight

Washington – Ronald Reagan (bless his sense of humor) loved to say that the problem with his administration was that the right hand didn’t know what the far right hand was doing. Something of that sort is happening among conservatives on the supposed urgency of closing the federal budget deficit. read more

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E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Calling the Bluff on Deficits

Washington is inundated with deficit commissions. The country has piled up a huge debt because we cut taxes for the wealthy and borrowed to make up the difference. But everyone says we can’t fix the problem by raising taxes on the rich in a recession because taxes “take money out of the economy.” Is there a factual basis for this idea, or is it just one more corporate/conservative-generated piece of “conventional wisdom” bamboozlement? A brief budget history since the 80′s: We cut taxes, increased military spending and cut investment in our infrastructure, and the result was huge budget deficits and slower economic growth. read more

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Did The Rich Cause The Deficit?