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...into buses that evacuated them from the vicinity of the shattered Chernobyl nuclear reactor only half a mile away. They did not know then, and do not know now, whether they will return home in months or years. One of the few Americans who have seen Pripyat is Dr. Robert Gale, a bone-marrow specialist who helped Soviet doctors cope with the Chernobyl disaster, which so far has cost 26 lives. "It's a very dramatic thing to see a partially destroyed nuclear power plant," Gale told reporters after taking a helicopter tour of the scene. "The damage itself doesn...
...conventional wisdom after Katrina was that most of the people who failed to evacuate were too poor to do so. But a recent survey of more than 2,000 respondents in eight hurricane-prone states showed that other forces may also be at play. The survey, led by Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health, attempted to determine what, if anything, would pry people from their homes in the face of another Katrina. Overall, 33% said they would not leave or were not sure whether they would leave if an evacuation...
...boat opened fire on a Japanese fishing boat sailing in disputed waters, killing a fisherman - Abe would need to show real statesmanship. "It would take a Prime Minister who has a rational view of the situation, who says, 'This is bad for Japan, and I won't go,'" says Robert Dujarric, a Tokyo-based analyst and senior associate at the National Institute for Public Policy in Fairfax, Virginia. "I don't know if that...
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...Robert Niblock...