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...spots abound in the buildings and equipment around Chernobyl. A disabled bulldozer sets off alarms on hand-held radiometers, showing 10 times the internationally accepted exposure level for nuclear-power workers. The big Mi- 8 helicopters that were used to drop sand into the blazing reactor in 1986 -- collecting such heavy radiation that some pilots died -- rest in a field along with hundreds of contaminated trucks and armored personnel carriers, many stripped of engines and electronic gear. The radiation is not enough to cause immediate illness, but looters are taking long-term risks. Health officials estimate that 10,000 deaths...
...governance bodies--The President and Fellows and Board of Overseers--are reduced to the position of a mere rubber stamp of the administration, the only source of their information. Yet each member of these two governing bodies is liable for dereliction of fiduciary duty and gross negligence. Legal precedence abound...
...Professor of Morals, "it was for the purpose of providing for a succession of learned ministers that the College was founded." The triumph of secularism, though important in a country where there is no state religion, has been accompanied by an unfortunate reluctance to face the social ills which abound...
Other problems abound. When electrocardiograms (EKGs) are used to test for heart disease, women more often show some abnormalities. Consequently, many doctors are apt to ignore a slight irregularity in women's EKGs, explains Dr. Gerald Pohost, "unless it is crystal clear the woman has heart disease." Pohost, director of the division of cardiovascular disease at the University of Alabama Medical Center, thinks that the high rate of EKG errors may result partly from the placement of electrodes on a woman's chest -- more difficult to do because of the female anatomy...
Predictable plot aside, the filming (Tak "You Should be Ashamed" Fujimoto) and editing (David "Albatross" Brenner) provide an educational experience for the filmmaker-to-be. Unexpected zooming and random camera angles reminiscent of home video abound. Let's see how many different shots we can get of two people kissing in a doorway...or is it two different doorways?...or is it in a subway station...