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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 Politics, Adam Sandler, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Good Will Hunting (movie), Vice (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: Heart Failure, Manufacturing and Engineering, Kentucky Fried Chicken, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), China
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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: Movies, Satellite and Cable Service, Sundance Film Festival, Pandora Media, Inc., SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival
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Sen. Casey examines state's nuclear emergency preparedness
Standard-Speaker, Hazleton, Pa.U.S. Sen. Bob Casey called for more information regarding emergency preparedness beyond the 10-mile radius for people living near nuclear power plants in Pennsylvania during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. A recent report released...Tags: Politics, Disasters and Accidents, Middletown, Emergency Incidents, Government
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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: Politics, Disasters and Accidents, Emergency Planning, Princeton University, Health and Safety at Work
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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: Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Disasters and Accidents, FEMA, Health and Safety at School, Relief and Aid Organizations
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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: Technology, NASA, High Noon (movie), California State University, Northridge, Aerospace Manufacturing
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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: Politics, Georgetown, George H.W. Bush, Arts and Culture, The Washington Post
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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: Politics, Disasters and Accidents, Natural Gas, Chernobyl (Kiev Oblast, Ukraine), Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)
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