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Once they had reached the hospital grounds, the victims seemed to faint, collapsing to the ground as if they had walked their final mile. They looked exhausted, like soldiers at the end of a battle. After waiting patiently, often for up to six hours, the victims were treated with civility and tenderness by the doctors and nurses. The army was there too, keeping the human traffic flowing without the usual pushing and shoving. The troops had set up 60 tents, which became instant wards for 20 people each. Some distance away, the army had set up a morgue to which...
Residents of West Virginia's Kanawha Valley complain about the putrid smell that sometimes hangs over the area, comparing it to the odor of dead rats and rotten cabbage. But to many locals the sulfurous aromas spewing from a dozen plants spread along a 30-mile section known locally as Chemical Valley are still "the smell of meat and potatoes." That is because these factories pay the wages of 10,000 people in a state that suffers the highest unemployment rate in the nation (16%). Says Bob Harbert, 36, a cab driver in Nitro, W. Va. (named...
...have views of the plant's towering smokestacks. Even after the chemical's horrible effects were demonstrated half a world away, residents rarely referred to it by its proper name, preferring to call it "that stuff." Says Charles White, 59, a college official who lives a quarter-mile from the Union Carbide facility: "Most of us have lived around the plant forever. It's something we've grown to accept. We have been so used to hearing the sirens at the plant that they have sort of lulled us to sleep. A lot of times things...
...least ten Kuwaitis, including three diplomats heading for the Karachi consulate, as well as a team of three American auditors from the U.S. Agency for International Development, an American businessman and a handful of other foreigners. The takeoff proved uneventful, and the passengers settled back for the 530-mile, 1½-hour flight to Dubai...
...Globe Santa can come up with a present for their child, families living roughly to within a 30-mile radius of Boston must write to the newspaper and have their letter countersigned by a social worker of clergyman registered with Globe Santa...