Quote of the Week II

“If you had a map of Afghanistan where you map the most insecure regions and the regions where we expect the highest cultivation of opium, you can really clearly see that there is very high correlation.”

- Angela Me of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on the state of opium cultivation in the country in a VOA News article suggesting crop cultivation will be stable this coming year but output could be low due to weather.

Quote of the Week

“All the resource mapping we’ve done will have to be catalogued and stored on disk. We’ve got some pretty sophisticated GIS equipment down there, and libraries of disks and CDs and stuff.”

- White Pine County Nuclear Waste Project Office Director Mike Simon on what’s in the project office, which may be shut down, as the the Yucca Mountain license becomes a possibility quoted in the Ely Times