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...said the main concern was that asbestos was released into the air and that tests were being conducted. Police were wearing gas masks in the street. Bloomberg noted, however, that the enormous amount of steam and water vapor released had probably washed the asbestos out of the air. A clean-up was being planned. [On Thursday morning, city officials said there was no evidence of asbestos in the air but the substance had been found on the ground...
...compound. Yet the siege could become the first salvo in a divisive war for Pakistan's soul: to be a traditional, Shari'a-based society, or a modern, moderate Muslim nation. As the urban élite and middle class lauded what they considered to be Musharraf's action to clean out a hotbed of radicalism, protests erupted in the tribal areas condemning the President and lionizing Ghazi...
...abilities also hangs on in behavioral areas, this could explain why rehabilitation programs that rely on cognitive therapy--teaching new ways to think about the need for a substance and the consequences of using it--may not always be effective, especially in the first weeks and months after getting clean. "Therapy is a learning process," notes Vocci. "We are trying to get [addicts] to change cognition and behavior at a time when they are least able...
...gash to his nose. "I fell over," says the boy, blinking in the light of Ott's torch. "C'mon, bro," says Ott. "How would you feel if someone got badly stabbed tonight, and died, by the same people that did this?" The teenager, who is mysteriously wearing a clean shirt turned inside out, admits that the wound, from a box cutter, was received in a fight with members of the Junior Horse Pack gang. The name is new to the police but "that's not surprising," says police inspector Jason Hewett. "They can form overnight and be gone...
...center. São Paulo’s Liberdade neighborhood boasts the biggest community of ethnic Japanese outside of Japan. São Paulo just hosted the biggest gay pride parade in history, but it is not recommended that gay men walk alone at night. The subway is extremely clean and efficient. But it does not reach the periphery, and will not even when finished...