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TOKYO: Haruo Atsuzawa is paying the price of negligence. The Japanese kindergarten prinicpal has received a two-year suspended jail sentence for inadvertantly causing the deaths of two children. Atsuzawa's students died in 1990 after he failed to decontaminate well water infected with the deadly 0157 E.coli bacteria, even after public health workers warned him about the problem. The sentence comes at a time when Japan is suffering through a new outbreak of the same bacteria, this time affecting mostly children. Seven are dead, and more than 8,700 are sick after E.coli contaminated lunches showed up in Sakai...
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