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Paul Finster Fleming has wandered the world for the past seven years. His British passport boasts stamps from 45 countries. He has lived in chilly Brussels and sunny Rio de Janeiro. He met his wife in India. Their growing brood--now numbering five--accompanied them to Washington for a year. Yet in all that time, the engineer, 43, hasn't had a permanent...
Although 75% of the workers are on 12- to 18-month contracts, many bring families with them. Fleming's wife and kids joined him on one-year assignments in Rio and Washington but are staying behind in London while he is in Seattle. As a former Royal Navy communications expert, he is used to the travel and knows it helps his resume, but he sees the downside too. "If you have a young family, it's hard to leave them behind, but moving can be an unstable life for them," says Fleming. The company often helps by giving housing...
...substance when he pried open a heavy lead casing that a scavenger had sold him. Leide rubbed the powder on her body so that she glowed and sparkled. Dust fell on the sandwich she was eating. Leide, her father and the scrap collector were in critical condition at a Rio de Janeiro hospital last week, not expected to survive...The ten Goiania victims in most serious condition, including Leide, were flown to a naval hospital in Rio de Janeiro. There they are being treated by a core team of eight specialists...Bone-marrow transplants, which were conducted on Chernobyl survivors...
...Other artistic concerns in the Sydney show are more earthbound. Over the past five years, New York City-based Momoyo Torimitsu has sent a battery-operated salaryman robot, "Miyata Jiro," crawling the streets of London, Rio de Janeiro and Sydney. With the artist, dressed as a nurse, presiding, the whole robot tour is videotaped. For Torimitsu, the salaryman is the casualty of an economic war lost last decade, a shattered soul in need of nurturing...
Visitors leave Bingham Canyon awestruck at the historic feat of engineering that dug such a deep pit. Environmentalists may see only the hole that humanity has dug for itself. Rio Tinto hopes that future generations will look west from their Sunrise homes and see the remnants of an old, strategically vital industry reshaped by new sensibilities and needs...