Although Havana is approximately 1,477 miles from Brattleboro, the organizers of the Brattleboro Film Festival and the Windham World Affairs Council aim to bring Cuba a lot closer during the weekend of Nov. 6. In a series of events that would have hardly been possible before 2014, when presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro reopened diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, locals can experience Cuban academia, film, music, and food without having to travel to Miami or sneak...
When culturally minded residents decided to turn this town's old railroad station into the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) in 1972, they obtained a lease for $1 a year and, rather than wait for the ink to dry, opened with a few paintings from such local artists as the acclaimed Wolf Kahn. Everything else, they told the press, was still on the drawing board. “The plans we have,” one organizer was quoted, “are only a beginning.” Much has changed...
Aside from the actual meltdowns themselves, two different kinds of nuclear accidents are just as bad. One is an explosion ejecting spent fuel, typically at a reprocessing plant. The other is a spent fuel fire, such as in the spent fuel pool at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan. We could lump them together and call them “dangerous fuel accidents.” Each of our worldwide 432 commercial nuclear reactors adds one reactor year for every year it runs, so the various nuclear reactors...
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