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...tour of some of the remaining hotspots near local towns and villages, they dip their buzzing Geiger counters into one still-contaminated river where we'd later see kids wading ankle-deep. At day's end, instead of returning to Chelyabinsk to spend the night in the grim Soviet surrounds known as "Tank City" for its role in equipping the Red Army, we headed for a holiday camp Kabriov knew on the shores of the massive Lake Uvil'dui, not far from where the Mayak facility's waste is now stored, more or less safely ensconced in concrete...
...here’s where this postcard, like the posters it describes, goes from silly to serious. Considering that this is the grim reality, it’s difficult to justify the absence of such campaigns in the U.S., particularly on grounds as trivial as taste. It’s not just that, as one placard of a lemon sporting a condom declares, “Safely makes fun!” It’s that condoms are indeed, as a particularly punny ad featuring them on potatoes says, “Überlebensmittel”: something that...
That would be a huge national-security win for the Bush Administration, but it took more than U.S. pressure alone to bring about. The past two years, despite continuous assistance from China, have been grim for the North economically, and not even Kim wants to see a rerun of the famines of the '90s. Says a senior East Asian diplomat: "The Chinese have been telling him over and over that he can afford to liberalize the economy a bit and still maintain control but that he had to dismantle the nuclear program to reap any benefits whatsoever." Step 1--shutting...
Times are grim for the members and friends of the Order of the Phoenix, the group assembled to fight the evil Lord Voldemort and his henchmen, the Death Eaters, and the film teeters on the edge of despair. Harry is lonely and wounded at the beginning of the film, and even at the height of his happiness, embraced by Ron and Hermione and leading the group they call Dumbledore’s Army, Yates reminds us that happiness is only temporary by snapping the film back down into darkness and danger. Joy and sorrow seem to exist in the same...
...This is a guy who refuses to back down from his core principles," McCain's New Hampshire Vice Chairman Steve Duprey said in introducing the Arizona Senator to the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, eliciting one of the few rounds of applause and cheering in what was otherwise a grim event...