IBM 1993: The Biggest Layoffs in US History – Cheddar Examines

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Review of “The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Vol 4)” by Robert Caro

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Review of “President Carter: The White House Years” by Stuart Eizenstat

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MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST NUCLEAR DISASTER by Adam Higginbotham

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An aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, is seen in April 1986, made two to three days after the explosion in Chernobyl, Ukraine. In front of the chimney is the destroyed 4th reactor.
(Chernobyl a few days after the explosion at Reactor #4)
These are the front pages of four British morning newspapers reflecting the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, Soviet Union.

March 28, 1979 was an overcast day in Woodbridge, Va. when news arrived of a nuclear accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor near Middletown, Pa.  Feeling totally in the dark when it came to information about the accident, my neighbors and I gathered outside our homes and immediately began testing to see which way the winds were blowing, and should we pack up and head in the opposite direction.  Living about two and a half hours from the reactor which would eventually partially melt down, we were scared.  Up to that time this would be considered the greatest nuclear accident in history being unaware of the Kyshtym Disaster which was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 29, 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site in Russia for nuclear weapons and a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Soviet Union.  After reading Adam Higginbotham’s new book, MIDNIGHT IN…

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California Home Prices Are Soaring. Here’s Why: houses as expensive as Wellington’s

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How many women agree with last sentence but maintain gender pay gap is the result of sex discrimination?

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From https://newmarksdoor.typepad.com/mainblog/2005/08/some_notes_on_c.html

Americans are rather accident prone

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Down and out in America

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Trade explained

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Still research grants out there to show men show-off more, and mostly to impress the opposite sex

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Climate economics (UG): Costs of emission reduction

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What happens to old spacecraft?

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David Friedman – Hidden Order (Booknotes on C-SPAN)

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Why STEM is an inferior career choice for many gifted girls

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