Congresswoman Shelley Berkley

"Mr. Speaker, I rise today to condemn in the strongest possible terms President Bush's latest attempt to resurrect the fatally flawed Yucca Mountain Project in my home State of Nevada...If the President has his way, Nevada will become the world's nuclear garbage dump...Billions of dollars have already been wasted on this hole in the middle of the Nevada desert, and the truth remains that Yucca Mountain is no closer to opening today than it was 20 years ago when Nevada was unfairly singled out... Read Full Story

Do you remember that heart-breaking news of the ‘murder’ & ’sucide’ by a mother & her children ? It was exactly two years back. The mother pushed her 5-year-old son down a cliff into the roaring Bhotekoshi River; then jumped herself. The teenaged daughter left alive by her moter, too, followed the suit. They hailed from Bhaktapur, travelled a 3-hour bus-ride to Dolalghat near the Nepal-Tibet border, and spent some three hours there. The local restaurant keeper reported that they ate chowmin... Read Full Story

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