Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...region surrounding the plant will continue to be dangerous for years to come, the report says, with radiation levels as much as 2,500 times normal. Officials at last week's news conference said that 135,000 people have been evacuated from an area of more than 300 sq. mi. around the plant. Previous / estimates were 100,000. The evacuees will eventually be housed in 52 villages, most of them in the Makarov district, west of Kiev. More than 2,000 new homes have been occupied, and 5,000 more are planned. The houses are being donated to the people...
...ventilation system to prevent heat buildup, which might cause new fires and explosions. The Communist Party daily Pravda has criticized the slowness of the effort, pointing out that three other nuclear reactors located on the site cannot resume operation until the fourth is sealed. "Life cannot return to normal in the area until the tomb is built," said Pravda...
British Author Ruth Rendell writes two kinds of novels: the continuing adventures of two shrewd and dogged suburban policemen, Wexford and Burden, which delight her fans, and dark journeys into the deranged psyches of outwardly normal people, which fascinate her but sell far fewer copies. The first group fits comfortably into the mystery genre. The second resists pigeonholes. The books feature no heroic detective and no gathering of suspects for a summing up. Sometimes the precise nature of a crime remains known only to the perpetrator. The lure to the reader is not to see justice done but to understand...
...third longer than Artificial Heart Recipient Murray Haydon, who died in June -- it was a seesaw survival that mixed moments of triumph with stretches of pain and anguish for both him and his family. "It's incredible how many times he had medical complications that would have finished a normal person," says DeVries...
Shortly before the April l4 strike, the Malta government disclosed, its air-traffic controllers had warned their Libyan counterparts of approaching war planes. A Maltese official called the notification a "normal procedure." In Washington, State Department Spokesman Charles Redman said the raid was nonetheless a "tactical surprise...