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...various navy engine rooms and another 22 as a private-sector heating technician, Le Guilcher is gravely ill with asbestosis. "We think it's completely illegal to send this boat to a foreign country," he tells Time, his conversation punctuated by hacking coughs. "If we don't want to poison France, why should we poison another country?" The Indian Supreme Court will rule on whether to accept the ship in the coming weeks, but that might not be the last word for the industry. For shipping lines and navies, the issue is economic. South Asian shipbreaking, says Carsten Melchiors, secretary...
...sheathed swords in their belt-loops and the elastics of their pants, pulling them out to punctuate fight scenes. Hamlet killed Polonius through a tapestry held by the Lowell house tutors. As the climax approached, actors deadpanned. Gertrude, the queen, drank a glass of colorful paper, meant to represent poison, and each actor languished into a dramatic death on stage. Actor Nora K. C. Flum ’07, who last spring was in the Winthrop House Drama Society’s performance of “Cymbeline,” a lesser-known Shakespearean play, said that...
...Chinese Communist Party officials have been frequently criticized for trying to cover up bad news after the fact, but in this case they chose to withhold what they knew even while the danger persisted. As the poison flowed downstream, information flowed in only one direction: up. While the public remained in the dark, officials reported to their superiors, who in turn reported further up the command chain. At each level, officials understood that there was less risk of official censure in awaiting orders than in making snap decisions that might have enabled residents to prepare...
...laid, but the department minimum might be several hundred. "If I have only one area that's a problem, it's overkill," he says. Given the indiscriminate impact of baiting, and the difficulty in visually telling dingoes and many hybrids apart, Steve Eldridge says the highly potent 1080 poison is used cautiously. He's released research showing that when excessive baiting unpicks the complex structure that dictates a dingo pack's breeding patterns, it's much easier for domestic dogs to move in and mate...
...there were obvious signs that the incident had frayed the people's faith in their rulers. Trains and planes out of the city were jammed. Near the village of Yuliu, downriver from Harbin, someone took it on himself to post a homemade sign near the river. "The water has poison," it read. "Don't drink it or fish in it." To help restore a sense of trust, Heilongjiang's top official, party secretary Song Fatang, announced that once the toxic slick has passed the city and the water supply has resumed, "I'll have the first mouthful...