Word: plantes
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...Officials seemed ill-prepared for the event even though the chemical-plant explosion had occurred more than a week earlier, on Nov. 13, some 200 miles upstream on the Songhua River. On Monday, a statement from the Harbin government attributed the surprise cutoff to "water main maintenance and repair." One day later, on Tuesday, a second statement issued on the city's official Web site acknowledged that the explosion had "perhaps polluted the water" in the river...
...employee of an orphanage, the Harbin Child Welfare Institution, says a local mineral-water plant allowed him to fill several dozen vats with water shortly after the announcement was made. The children in his care should have enough water for several days. "They said we can go back and fill up again if necessary," he said. The city's Obstetrics Hospital says it still has enough water for women giving birth, but that doctors are washing their hands with dirty, used water...
...explosion upstream had occurred at the Jilin Petrochemical Company, which is owned by the state-run China National Petroleum Corporation. It has not been revealed what contaminants might have entered the Songhua River. According to Chinese media reports, the plant produced aniline, which is used to make dye, fungicide and shoe polish. The Illinois-based National Safety Council considers it an "extremely hazardous substance." In small doses it causes lethargy, while larger doses can cause coma...
...Gwang Ki kneels in the yellow stubble of his newly harvested rice field and lovingly picks up a stray stalk of rice. Every day since he was a young boy, Yuk, now 53, has come to this paddy in Jangsu province, South Korea, to plant, to tend the fragile seedlings and to bring in the crops. Yuk's family has tilled this tiny plot for 400 years, and while it's increasingly difficult to earn a living from the land, Yuk would be happy knowing his family could go on with the work for 400 more. "The purpose of farming...
...Joe’s analysis may not be far off the mark. While an adult selling even an ounce of marijuana or growing one marijuana plant within three blocks of a university is subject to a one-year mandatory minimum sentence under federal law, students at Harvard are more likely to face a “formal warning” or, at worst, probation for their marijuana...