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...what used to be Jaisalmer's main impediment: human waste. Gone are the days when alleyways doubled as communal lavatories and just a whiff of the walled city revealed what travel guides really meant when they said life hadn't changed since the Dark Ages. Jaisalmer has had a cleanup...
...Working with the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, Jaisalmer in Jeopardy oversaw the restoration of the Har-Raj-Ji-ka-Mahal and instigated a series of cleanup projects that sanitized the fort's alleyways. But many other buildings, including the fort walls themselves, are in urgent need of repair. Reining in overenthusiastic developers is another major challenge, says Carpenter: "We're trying to overcome the thirst for opening yet another hotel, building another concrete extension, installing more showers...
...Despite the cleanup, Jaisalmer still retains a whiff of its human odor. And, if you want to do your bit to help preserve the ancient wonder, so should you. This is perhaps the one place in India where you should forgo your customary bathing routine. The roads might no longer be paved with excrement, but Jaisalmer's best hope of salvation lies in holding onto its medieval stink...
...With all the bad news coming out of the banks and with Takenaka's surprisingly persistent cleanup efforts, many observers believe nationalization is a foregone conclusion for the weakest banks. "I don't see any way out," says Mitsuhiro Fukao, a professor of economics at Keio University, Tokyo, and reportedly a candidate to become governor of the Bank of Japan in March. Says Takatoshi Ito, a former Finance Ministry official and fellow contender for the Bank of Japan job: "This has been going on for some time, but the momentum for crisis is building." A turning point in Japan...
...radiation levels in the Gulf were so high that the military even organized cleanup efforts for 24 of its own vehicles during and after the war. Capt. Doug Rokke, who headed these operations, said in the same documentary it took three months to prepare them and a full three years to clean them up. Rokke described the “thousands and thousands” of contaminated vehicles all over Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo which have yet to be cleaned. He himself now has lung and kidney problems while he claims that many other members of his clean...