Because no one explores for uranium when you've got half a century's worth of it already found. The truth of the matter is uranium prospecting has barely begun, with most of the earth's surface not surveyed for uranium, and many low-yield mines shut down due to the 1980s plummet in uranium prices.The true amount of reserves we have are at least 15X higher. But for purposes of this calculation, lets just assume they're only 5X higher. That gives us 250 years. So where's the rest come from?Right now we burn uranium fuel once, then throw it away. In the 1970s we used to reprocess that fuel. Burned in a breeder reactor, it actually makes more fuel...a process that can be repeated up to 20 times. President Carter banned fuel reprocessing for proliferation concerns, and the industry has never recovered.

Delia's How to Cheat at Cooking causes stir

Food producers are bracing themselves for the "Delia effect" as the queen of cookery's new book hits the shelves.

US must shake its Wild West attitude toward guns

In one bitter week, six dead in Kirkwood, MO and six in DeKalb, IL, an even dozen, from a fusillade of gunfire by two citizens armed and dangerous. This is not counting the other assorted incidents of victims killed by gun-toting citizens in our country last week alone.. I don't have the exact number of deaths due to weapons legally obtained by the perpetrators. No doubt, that illustrious defender of the faith, ranting their spurious, self-serving interpretation of the Constitution of our right to bear arms, the NRA, keeps this total on their spreadsheets at Washington, DC. headquarters. In this hail of bullets members of this "militia" power-mad lobbying throng must be chanting, " Hail to the NRA ". How many card-carrying members recited the Lords Prayer attending funerals of their slain friends?

Against an individuals intent on killing scores of others indiscriminately, the evidence is overwhelming that there is scant defense from limiting the initial carnage by officers of the law or average citizens, unarmed or armed with openly displayed or concealed weapons for defense.

4,000 scientists meet in Orlando area to find biodiesel solutions to ...

The world is running out of oil. Consumers are irked at forking over $3 for every gallon of gasoline. Oil and gas are not renewable, and most of the known crude is buried in blistering deserts of the Middle East or frozen tracts from Alaska to Siberia.

For those reasons and more, 4,000 scientists, farm-state officials and others are energized as they meet this week at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee, cooking up more plans for alternative fuels -- "bio-fuels" -- using everything from soybeans and crushed cotton seeds to corn and waste vegetable oil.

All American grown.

'It's a fiasco – but my nose isn't in the trough'

I earned more in the private sector than I ever earned in politics," she declared. She added: "You have to look the part as well, goddammit. I never had my hair highlighted in my life before. Whatever this is, it's not a gravy train."Alexander called for a less cynical style of politics, revealing that she considers Buddhist mantras before leading political attacks against opponents. "(Politics] is not the sort of world where the Buddhist mantra of, 'is it true, is it necessary, and is it kind', is very often applied to a political speech. But I do sometimes give thought before I speak to whether those tests have been applied," she said.Alexander said she did not .

Good Neighbor’s cupboard is bare in Anderson

ANDERSON — Tuna fish, grits, canned pumpkin and cranberry sauce — that's about all that's left in the warehouse for the Good Neighbor Cupboard in Anderson.

Palestinian Aide Suggests Kosovo a Model

Under the internationally endorsed "road map" peace plan, which is the basis of the renewed negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel is to cease all settlement activity.

Similar unauthorized settlement activity has taken place in Maskiot in the northern Jordan Valley.

Partridge Hill Media to Launch Simple Gifts Magazine, a Celebration of ...

Simple Gifts Magazine is the brainchild of Nissa Gadbois and her husband, Brian, who have spent the last sixteen years singe-mindedly pursuing a family-centered lifestyle. There were many publications available that covered crafts, cooking, housekeeping, parenting, home-education, natural health and homesteading. Simple Gifts encompasses all of those, and does it with warmth and grace.

Simple Gifts Magazine offers inspiration for family-centered living. Four issues per year celebrate each season with homemaking, hospitality, gardening, and care of home and homestead. Each issue offers ideas for old-fashioned family activities, travel and discovery. Simple Gifts will also feature families whose family-owned businesses exemplify family-centered living.

Simple Gifts Magazine has developed out of my own weblog, and out of my relationships with other mothers over the last 15 years, says Ms.

Japan trade deficit widens in January as exports slow, amid concerns ...

Japan's trade deficit widened to 79.3 billion yen (US$734 million; euro501 million) in January from a year earlier, the government said Thursday, suggesting exports face a slowdown amid global uncertainties over U.S. subprime woes. The data showed the deficit jumped more than 20 times in January from last year's 3.5 billion yen (US$32 million; euro22 million). The results, announced by the Finance Ministry, marked the first deficit in a year and far worse than the 5.6 billion yen (US$52 million; euro35 million) deficit estimate by economists polled by Dow Jones and Nikkei. Japan's trade surplus with the U.S. declined 4.8 percent to 540.7 billion yen (US$5 billion; euro3.4 billion), marking the fifth straight month of decline, the ministry said. .