Toxic waste facility rejects radioactive waste – Houston Chronicle

Toxic waste facility rejects radioactive waste – Houston Chronicle
KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif. — The largest toxic waste facility in the West rejected a proposal by Boeing Co. and NASA to accept tainted soil from the site of a partial nuclear meltdown. Chemical Waste Management, which operates the San Joaquin dump, sent a letter Tuesday to Linda Adams, head of the

Embassy official identified as 1st American killed in Haiti earthquake – Minneapolis Star Tribune
WASHINGTON – A State Department official says the first American reported killed by the earthquake in Haiti was a foreign service officer crushed when her home collapsed. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley says diplomat Victoria DeLong died Tuesday, the first American identified among thousands

Hunt for bird mummy in Conn. comes up empty – Findlaw.com
NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – Researchers who examined an Egyptian mummy with the latest imaging technology found no evidence that a packet inside her was an offering to the gods of the ancient world. Previous tests led to speculation that the packet was a bird mummy – something researchers said would

Cocaine found at Fla. NASA hangar, workers tested – Beaver County Times
NASA is investigating how a bag of cocaine got into the hangar that houses space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said Thursday that the bag contained a tiny amount of the illegal substance. It was found by a worker in a secure part of the hangar

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