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...after violence hit the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defense Ministry said. Hours before the ministers were to meet, Israel sent its forces to foil what it claimed was an attempt to bring arms into Gaza by sea. Four Palestinian civilians were killed. INDIA Wanted: U.S. Exec A court in Bhopal rejected an attempt to reduce charges against a former chairman of Union Carbide arising from a 1984 industrial disaster that has killed 20,000 people. The Indian government wanted the charge of culpable homicide against Warren Anderson, a U.S. citizen, to be reduced to negligence. But a judge argued that...
...extra like Suraj loses work. Suraj, who dreamed of being an action hero, now thinks he is lucky to have a union card. The money is awful, and he is often at the mercy of corrupt agents, but still Suraj says he will never go back home to Bhopal. "I can't do anything else," he says. Nevertheless, he might soon have to. He waits every day at the dank office, but producers are no longer calling. "This is a cruel industry," says filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who tries to hire junior artists but still, like everyone else, needs the models...
...stunning effectiveness. Fertilizer bombs like the one that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., in 1995 could wreak havoc with bridges, tunnels and buildings. Nuclear-power and chemical-manufacturing plants make even more horrifying targets. The 1984 leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, may have killed 3,000. Estimates of the final death toll from the 1986 explosion in the Chernobyl nuclear plant run as high...
...devastating," says Ed Pressman, who works for the American mining giant Newmont, which operates a mine 100 km south of Manado. "It's one of the great, unrecognized environmental disasters of our time." Then Pressman mentions a name that has been burned into the world's consciousness along with Bhopal and Chernobyl: Minamata...
...Cigarette smokers--so they can slap them and steal their smokes b) The terrible bandit Veerappan c) Fulfillment d) The best monkey strip clubs from Bali to Bhopal...