31.   Bivins said that under the terms of the amendment, federal waste would be no more hazardous than waste accepted under the compact.

32.   Both European groups regularly put waste in glass, although their wastes are chemically simpler than the ones at Hanford.

33.   A waste of time is another issue.

34.   Aboard Mir, waste is stored in sealed containers until a Progress supply module arrives with fresh supplies.

35.   All in all, human wastes may be more menacing than nuclear wastes, for feces kill far more people than radioactive substances.

36.   But for the foreseeable future, they say, the poisonous waste will no longer be able to leak into the soil.

37.   But much of the opposition to the Mescalero plan came from people who believe that nuclear waste was bad for business.

38.   But Leavitt said that wherever the wastes are now, they are better off there.

39.   But solidified in glass, the waste will be hard to spread, even if the stainless steel eventually rusts away and the glass breaks into pieces.

40.   But Sandra Mullin, a city health department spokeswoman, said Sunday that tests had not been completed to determine if human waste was present in the liquid.