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...from its slopes, including more than 400 discarded oxygen containers. Local Nepalese villagers didn't see the point of the project at first, but eventually joined in enthusiastically, realizing that their success could provide a potent example in their polluted country. "They said, 'We want to change Nepal from Mount Everest,'" Noguchi recalls...
...Japanese take their trash collection seriously. Pity the poor gaijin who mixes his combustibles with his noncombustibles. But that conscientiousness is often left at base camp when Japanese climb Mount Fuji. One of Japan's most revered natural wonders, the 3,776-m mountain may also be one of its dirtiest. The 200,000 or so visitors who climb Mount Fuji every high season leave behind panoramic piles of refuse on the peak, while overworked toilets along the climbing trail overflow with excrement...
...same time, Noguchi took on an even more challenging cleanup project: Mount Fuji. If Everest is one of the most difficult mountains in the world to climb, Fuji is definitely the hardest to clean up. "I was shocked by how terrible it was," he says. "This is a national park." So, in 2000, Noguchi teamed up with the Fujisan Club, a local environmental group, and started leading collection expeditions up the mountain. Along the way, he inspired thousands of ordinary citizens to begin picking up, too. Today, Fuji is far cleaner, and with the toilets at all 48 locations...
...further information on Dartmouth medical crisis and flaunted CDC requests to do so. The Crimson reported at the time that UHS’s resources were taxed to the limit, and students were turned away due to lack of facilities. Others were sent on a triage basis to Mount Auburn Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital for further care. At the time of the crisis, UHS had 16 beds. Today, it has ten. In the years following the epidemic, UHS has “looked at where people could be housed in the event of a heath crisis or a pandemic...
...table come nightfall. That's because they remain under a financial siege imposed by Israel, the U.S. and Europe, in the hope of forcing Hamas, the Palestinian ruling party, to recognize Israel. The premise of the siege strategy appears to be that by increasing Palestinian misery, domestic pressure will mount on Hamas to submit or quit...