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The British magazine New Scientist reported last month that researchers at Japan’s Central Research Institute of Electrical Power Industry were studying whether compact nuclear reactors (the size of a broom closet, to be housed in a building’s basement) could provide electricity for densely populated office and apartment buildings in downtown Tokyo. The Rapid-L reactor was originally designed to produce electricity for moon stations.
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Government Policy on Copulation
Last month Michael Dean Messer of Waynesville, North Carolina, was bitten by his four-foot timber rattlesnake, which he had taken outside “for some exercise” after coaxing it to swallow a hen’s egg. Said Messer, “My dog got him upset.”…Two days later, in Fayette County, Virginia, Alfred “Pooch” Preast was hospitalized after being bitten on the hand by a timber rattler during a worship service at the Pentecostal House of Prayer. Preast, whose uncle was a snake-handling legend in the area, had been showing off for his new girlfriend, who was also raised in a snake-handling family.
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