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...many Hindus were understandably hesitant about diving in recent weeks to ritually cleanse their souls as their faith directs. But after thousands of holy men threatened to boycott the six-week festival - one of the largest gatherings in the world - while others said they would commit the ritual suicide "jal samadhi" in protest, officials in India flushed the river with water from an upstream dam. Here's how other waterways have fared since their filthy conditions were plunged into the spotlight...
...RESIGNED. TOSHIYUKI SHINMACHI, 63, as president and CEO of Japan Airlines, Asia's largest carrier; after less than a year in the post; in Tokyo. Four board members called for Shinmachi's resignation last month over a string of problems at JAL, including a projected $404 million fiscal-year loss, slumping seat sales and safety issues...
...Coldplay, became the biggest-selling download album ever. All the proceeds go to the charity War Child, which assists children affected by violent conflicts all over the world. The musicians involved have rallied to that cause, but only one fully understands the appalling realities of its mission: Emmanuel Jal, onetime child soldier in Sudan and now a fast-rising star of African rap. Jal's new album, Ceasefire, released in Britain this week, is an appeal for peace, rather than money. And although he's now a powerful spokesman for campaigns like Make Poverty History and the Coalition to Stop...
...tail assembly and the repairs were examined visually after the work was done, according to Hiroaki Kohno, general manager of JAL's maintenance planning department. There was no need for X-ray examination, he said, because "we had full access to the damaged area from the underside." Could some damage have been overlooked at that time? "That cannot be completely ruled out," Kohno conceded, "although that probability would be very...
Whatever the eventual findings, Yasumoto Takagi, 73, the president of JAL, assumed full responsibility for the tragedy and told Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone that he would resign. Nakasone made no effort to dissuade him. High officials in Japan, whether governmental or private, consider it ethically mandatory to leave office when something goes disastrously wrong, even if they were not directly responsible...