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Fukushima: How Many Chernobyls Is It?

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BY BOB NICHOLS The world’s second big nuclear disaster occurred at Chernobyl Reactor No. 4 in the Ukraine on April 26, 1986. Simply tagged as...

Hi-Tech, Hi-Touch: Back To The Future

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BY FROMA HARROP While fetching my digital camera from the repair shop, I noted a bunch of clunky old film cameras and their flashes lining a back table. I thought no one used film anymore. Wrong. The proprietor explained that a growing subset of young people like to work with old-fashioned film technology. Here are […]

Gaming The [Retirement] System

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BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD For several decades there has been continuing concern among retired educators and others about the sanctity of the Oklahoma Teacher Retirement...

Hail To The People

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BY SHARON MARTIN I volunteer sometimes. “A waste of time,” someone close to me said, someone who knows I am always scrambling for time. “There are things...

Washington’s Deeper Immorality

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BY JOE CONASON While the well-deserved departure of Anthony Weiner draws rapt attention in our tabloid nation, the depredations of less colorful but more powerful politicians go unnoticed, so long as no genitalia are involved. At the moment, for instance, Republican leaders in the House and the Senate are mounting yet another series of assaults […]