 Some people here have lived their whole lives in the shadow of the twin cooling towers of the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant. Their fathers and grandfathers helped build the facility, which the Tennessee Valley Authority began constructing in the 1970s but never completed. The TVA operates three other nuclear plants within a 125-mile radius, so many here are comfortable with the idea of a nuclear neighbor. They celebrated in September when a consortium of utility companies chose Bellefonte as one of two sites for new nuclear plants. "Everybody from 35 to 40 years old that grew up around this county in the '70s, they've seen the towers, they knew what it was," says Tommy Bryant, 36, a utility company manager whose father worked a construction job at Bellefonte. "Most people are really glad about what they're planning." Americans' confidence in nuclear power waned after the partial meltdown of a reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island in 1979 and the explosion in 1986 at the Chernobyl ...
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 Iran dismisses world’s criticism as ‘emotional’ |
Iran dismissed international criticism of anti-Israeli remarks by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, urging the West on Sunday to show greater tolerance for differing points of view.Last week, Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a “myth” and said if Europeans insist it did occur, then they should give some of their own land for a Jewish state, rather than the one in the Middle East. The comments came just two months after the hard-line president called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”The remarks sparked outrage in Israel and the United States, and European leaders warned Saturday they would consider sanctions. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Sunday the international reaction was overblown.“The West had a very emotional attitude about Ahmadinejad’s comments. Westerners have to learn to tolerate other’s opinion,” Asefi said at a news conference....
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| U.S. had secret Afghanistan prison, group says |
A human rights group said Sunday that the United States operated a secret prison for terrorism suspects as recently as last year in Afghanistan, where detainees where subjected to torture and other mistreatment.The Bush administration has faced international criticism over detainees after a Nov 2 Wash Post article said the CIA held dozens of terrorism suspects in secret prisons called "black sites" in countries around the world, including eastern Europe.Human Rights Watch said 8 detainees now held in the US military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have told their attorneys that they were arrested separately in countries in Asia and the Middle East and flown to Afghanistan at various times between 2002 and 2004. The men were taken to a prison near Kabul where they were shackled to walls, kept in darkness for weeks, deprived of food and water for days at a time, bombarded with loud rap and heavy metal music, and punched and slapped during questioning by US interrogators,...
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| Mexican President Vicente Fox Calls U.S. Plans to Build Fence on Southern Border 'Shameful' |
Mexican President Vicente Fox stepped up his attacks on the United States plan to build a fence along its southern border on Sunday, saying it was a "shameful" initiative for a democracy. Fox said barriers between nations belonged to the last century and had been torn down by popular uprisings, referring to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. "This wall is shameful," Fox said at an event for migrants in his home state of Guanajuato. On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 239-182 in favor of an immigration enforcement bill, which includes a proposal to build 700 miles of fence through parts of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. ...
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| Bush invokes Iraq as uproar over spying grows President claims success overseas while lawmakers call for investigation |
Bush is seizing on Iraq’s elections to claim significant progress as he faces an uproar in Congress over whether he exceeded his powers in conducting the war on terror.Speaking from the Oval Office, Bush was addressing the nation following Dick Cheney’s surprise visit to Baghdad where the vice president asserted that Iraq’s emerging political structure ultimately will take responsibility for its own security.The Pentagon hopes to be able to reduce U.S. troop levels as Iraqi security forces become more capable of defending their own country, but it is unclear when that point will be reached. The usual U.S. troop level this year of about 138,000 was strengthened to about 160,000 this fall out of concern for a potential rise in violence during voting in October and December....
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| America's 'nightmare' leads Bolivia election |
Socialist coca farmer Evo Morales led his conservative rival by more than 10 percentage points in Bolivia's presidential race, a surprisingly strong outcome that made it likely he would be declared the country's first Indian president, according to independent exit polls.Raucous celebrations erupted among Morales' supporters after nationally televised exit polls showed him with a decisive lead over former President Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, who was backed by Bolivia's business elite and Morales himself declared a victory.Quiroga publicly offered his congratulations to Morales on Sunday night."Evo! Evo!" Morales supporters chanted in this coca-growing region of Cochabamba, where Morales built his Movement Toward Socialism, known by its Spanish acronym MAS. ...
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