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...word, all is normal.Reading the Mumbai papers, however, one gets an entirely different impression. The press has filled in the gaps in the city’s understanding of its recent attacks with a narrative of imminent danger and Pakistani aggression. This coverage, tinged with bloodlust, is at fever pitch—and it is incessant.Announcing on the Times Now news channel that Pakistan was refusing to acknowledge captured terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, for example, a reporter stated with grave certainty that “in their heart of hearts” Pakistanis knew Kasab belonged to them. And despite...
...major source of mercury water emissions," says Gary Cohen, a co-founder and co-executive director of HCWH. In 1997, the last year for which data is available, according to the EPA, the health-care sector was the country's fourth largest source of mercury emissions, and mercury fever thermometers alone accounted for about 17 tons of mercury deposited yearly in solid waste landfills. Despite the lack of hard data, industry watchers estimate that the phase-out of mercury-based instruments has greatly reduced that burden...
...coolant Freon, ice was harvested where it formed naturally - including from New York City's rivers - and shipped to the South, all in the name of food storage. In the 1840s, a Florida physician named John Gorrie, trying to cool the rooms where patients were suffering from yellow fever, figured out how to make ice using mechanical refrigeration, paving the way for household refrigerators that appeared in American homes en masse in the 1920s and 1930s. It wasn't a moment too soon. As families struggled to feed their children during the Great Depression, it was unthinkable to throw away...
...fares between Baltimore and Orlando for $89 and between Chicago and Sarasota for $80. Check the AirTran website for flights and sale fares for trips through Feb. 11, 2009. Also, the airline is increasing flights to Washington D.C. from Milwaukee and Atlanta in anticipation of Inauguration Day fever. (See 10 things to do in Washington...
...even in Japan, the President-Elect of the United States is a media darling. Well before this month's election, Obama fever was in full swing in a small town in western Japan called Obama, where residents formed hula teams in homage of the politician's Hawaii years. Ten months ago, Notchi didn't even know who Barack Obama was until his wife mentioned he looked like the up-and-coming politician. "I thought Obama was a pro wrestler or a fighter or something," the comedian recalls, wearing the dark suit - originally purchased for weddings and funerals - that he uses...