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...caf?s, noodle joints and bare-bulb fishermen's shacks outside the palace, many Maldivians tell a different story. Here the social indices that matter are one of the world's highest divorce rates and rampant heroin addiction indicated by 1,000 convicted dealers in a capital city of 86,000. Although everyone acknowledges tourism's success, many Maldivians?and international relief workers?charge that it has made multimillionaires of Gayoom's friends while official figures show that 42% of Maldivians earn less than $1 a day. And there's a hot fury reserved for Gayoom himself, whom they and Amnesty...
...farmers and fishermen who live in jungle villages along the southern coast of Burma were long overlooked and neglected by their government. And they liked it that way, given the notorious methods of the country's military dictatorship. But their lives changed horribly, they say, after two oil companies, the U.S. giant Unocal and its French partner Total, began exploiting natural-gas deposits offshore. The gas discovery prompted construction of a $1.2 billion pipeline through hundreds of miles of rain forest to an electrical plant in neighboring Thailand. At that point, villagers contend, the government began to view them...
...farmers and fishermen who live in jungle villages along the southern coast of Burma were long overlooked and neglected by their government. And they liked it that way, given the notorious methods of the country's military dictatorship. But their lives changed horribly, they say, after two oil companies, the U.S. giant Unocal and its French partner Total, began exploiting natural-gas deposits offshore. The gas discovery prompted construction of a $1.2 billion pipeline through hundreds of miles of rain forest to an electrical plant in neighboring Thailand. At that point, villagers contend, the government began to view them...
...took off my clothes. The others said, 'What's that on your back?' It was a red spot the size of a child's fist." Fishing - Branick's job since he was 16 - has long been regarded as one of the world's most dangerous occupations. Some 24,000 fishermen around the world die each year, and millions more are injured in weather- and equipment-related accidents. In the Baltic, though, there is another hazard - about 35,000 tons of chemical munitions sunk by the Russians near Bornholm and the Swedish island of Gotland, west of Latvia, in the late...
...issue," maintains Vladimir Mandrygin, chief of staff of the Ecology committee. "However, not all our Baltic neighbors are supportive; they would rather not talk about it. Russian scientists have been offering various projects for handling the issue, but there is no financing." As well as the potential harm to fishermen, says the panel's chairman, Vladimir Grachev, "danger is involved in laying gas pipes and communication cables on the sea shelf." Branick was lucky. "I only got hit by the water that had been in contact with the gas. If I had touched the gas itself, I can't imagine...