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...tons of toxic soil around the nation, but there are questions about how the money is being spent. And several parties have noted with growing frustration that the money is primarily going to study the issue and hire consultants rather than implementing measures to prevent new generations from being exposed. (See the ongoing effects of an industrial disaster in India...
...from flowing into the city's water supply and building a wall to keep people from entering the area. At another abandoned U.S. air base in the Aluoi Valley, a Vietnamese botanist raised $25,000 in donations to plant cactus-like bushes and thorn trees around contaminated areas to prevent villagers from entering to fish there. (Dioxins quickly accumulate in animal fat.) Though these are not long-term solutions, Hatfield found that after the simple barriers went up, dioxin levels in the blood and breast milk of nearby residents dropped dramatically...
...television broadcast footage, shot with a bystander's cellphone, showing the woman igniting herself on the structure's rooftop and flames rising up around her. The woman, Tang Fuzhen, died two weeks later from her injuries. And, on Dec. 14 in a suburb of Beijing, a man, attempting to prevent his home from being demolished to make way for a new development, soaked himself in gasoline then lit it as workers were attempting to force his family out. The man, Xi Xinzhu, is now being treated in a Beijing hospital. (See an audio-visual presentation on China's internal migrants...
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...sure, changes as large as the abolition of a branch of Congress should not be taken lightly. However, an institution like the U.S. Senate whose primary effect is to prevent the federal government from accomplishing anything of significance has clearly overstayed its welcome. If the citizens of the United States care about maintaining a democracy in any sense of the term, it is high time to abolish the Senate...