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For those who have seen it, Pripyat is a place of silence, devoid of life. The only movement that suggests human habitation is the flutter of laundry on clotheslines. But the laundry has been there, day and night, since April 27. On that day, most of the town's 40...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pripyat, near Chernobyl, after the disaster | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

On Friday France's Nuclear Safety Agency (ASN) revealed that damage to an underground conduit at the Romans-sur-Isère plant in southwestern France had allowed radioactive waste to leak, though in quantities so small, it said, to have "not at all affected the environment." But it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Doubts Up After Nuke Mishaps | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

Although most New Yorkers make no secret of their contempt for the land that lies beyond the Hudson and East Rivers, the city welcomed me with open arms. As I warily presented my immigration documents and student visa to the burly U.S Immigrations and Customs officer, I braced myself for...

Author: By Emmeline D. Francis | Title: Welcome to the City | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

You've outlived one of your children. How did he pass away? He was a coffee farmer [in Africa]. There was a very bad drought. He was a man who cared very much about the trees, rivers, animals, birds. The drought dried the rivers up and killed the trees. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doris Lessing Q and A | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

We have water, water, everywhere, but much of South Florida's per capita use is 50% above the national average, and we've lost half the wetlands that used to recharge our aquifers. So water shortages threaten to limit growth in a way that wetlands regulations or bad headlines never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Florida the Sunset State? | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

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