Word: chernobyls
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Four years have passed since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the grim legacy of the Soviet catastrophe is still unfolding. Large populated areas surrounding the reactor site in the Ukraine and in nearby Belorussia remain contaminated with high levels of radioactivity. The poisoning of the land has created dire health problems and economic devastation. A new study by the chief economist of a Soviet government institute calculates that the cost of Chernobyl, including the price of the cleanup and the value of lost farmland and production, could run as high as $358 billion -- 20 times as much...
Much of the disturbing news about Chernobyl comes from journalists who have toured the area. Among the most prominent is Igor Kostin, a photographer who % has covered the tragedy from the early days after the accident. His latest set of photographs, taken within the past four months, present haunting images, including scenes of children still living in contaminated towns and shots of animals born horribly deformed, possibly because of radiation. The pictures, which are being published for the first time in the West in these pages, are part of an exhibition organized by the Italian firm Imago that will...
...range of problems attributed to the Jewish conspiracy stretches from the infiltration of Western culture into Russian society, to alcoholism, AIDS and the nuclear accident at Chernobyl...
Lately, though, the networks' morning-show managers have committed some major miscues. Last fall the Today show turned what should have been an orderly transfer of power -- from Jane Pauley to Deborah Norville -- into a public-relations Chernobyl. Norville, cast as the usurper of Pauley's job, took over in January with viewers already against her. And they don't seem to have changed their minds: after nearly four years as the top-rated morning show, Today has slipped in the past six weeks to No. 2, behind ABC's Good Morning America. CBS, in the meantime, has dumped...