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...about once a month, sounding like a worn-out mother. The message: Environmental disasters can strike at any moment. They’re as near as the Duracell sitting in the hallway waste bin. Certain regular acts have now taken on a criminal thrill. Who knew that sneaking a plastic bottle of water up to the room—40 million of the little terrors are thrown out everyday!—could feel so good?I’m pretty sure that a former Dunster House resident and Oscar winner (okay, Nobel Peace Prize winner, too) is to blame...
...test phantom viruses resulted in the staggering delay in diagnosis. Ebola symptoms are also vague, and health officials did not suspect the virus was present until it hit its epidemic stride. Meanwhile, local populations have been burying deceased but infected relatives without protection. Usually, infected corpses are covered in plastic before they are buried...
Edwards was pronounced dead at the scene by medical examiners, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). Firefighters were called to the scene to investigate the presence of a possibly toxic crystal chemical, according to BPD, and the Herald reported that Edwards was found with a plastic bag wrapped around his head...
Earlier this morning, the Boston Herald reported that a man's body was found in the building, his head wrapped in a plastic bag. Firefighters arrived to investigate a jar of possibly toxic chemicals found at the scene, the Herald reported...
...might do that. Yet, however terrible war in the Horn of Africa may be, experience suggests that hunger kills more people there than guns do. According to the U.N., since Ethiopia invaded Somalia, 503,000 refugees have fled Mogadishu to live in hovels of twigs and plastic bags in the bush. A year ago, there were 370 refugee families at a refugee camp 30 miles (48 km) from Mogadishu. Six months later, the camp sheltered 20,000 people. Hawa Abdi, a Somali doctor after whom the camp is named, told TIME this summer, "We need doctors. We need medicine...