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Robert Alvarez, 76, Dies; Called Attention to Nuclear-Waste Safety

18 juillet 2025 à 14:32
A self-taught expert, he spent decades working in both nonprofits and the government to expose problems in the production of atomic weapons.

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Robert Alvarez, left, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, and Jeffrey Patterson of Physicians for Social Responsibility in 2011 at a news conference in Washington about the accident triggered by an earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility in Japan.
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Joseph Giordano, Surgeon Who Helped Save Reagan’s Life, Dies at 84

5 juillet 2025 à 09:00
He had built one of the country’s leading trauma centers in Washington, which made it possible for his team to respond quickly after the president was shot.

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Dr. Joseph Giordano (seated at the table at far left) appeared with other surgeons at a news conference at George Washington University Hospital on April 3, 1981, four days after President Ronald Reagan had been admitted there for gunshot wounds.

Germany Wants Recruits. But ‘No One Wants Their Children in the Army.’

26 juin 2025 à 05:21
Given the country’s past, cultural resistance to becoming a soldier is high. Can leaders change minds to meet a changing world?

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Trying out a virtual reality headset at a German Army recruitment booth during a tech trade show in Berlin in May. Germany has committed to significantly expand its military.
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