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...radiation produced by Vatican Radio's powerful transmitters. The Vatican claims that as a sovereign state under a 1929 treaty it is not subject to Italian prosecutors. Bordon says that unless emissions are reduced by the end of this week, he will order electricity suppliers to cut off the station's power...
...dubbed by the Italians elettrosmog, become an issue. A consumer group claims that communities near the transmitters have higher incidences of leukemia among children than those in the rest of the region around Rome, a statistic contested by the Vatican. Two Jesuit officials and one technical expert at the station were supposed to appear in court two weeks ago to answer charges of "dangerous showering of objects," but the hearing was postponed for several months...
SOUTH PACIFIC A Russian Star Makes a Splash At speeds of up to 300 km a second, the Mir space station plunged into the Pacific early Friday. Despite anxieties in Japan and Australia that the dying craft could miss its trajectory and hit land, Russian ground controllers successfully steered it to its final watery resting place some 2,900 km southwest of the Pitcairn Islands. Most of the giant 136-ton structure, which had been in orbit since 1986, burned up as it re-entered the earth's atmosphere. About six fragments survived to splash down...
...most common alternative to unattractive entrees is currently the pasta station; but after three straight meals of turning your back to General Wong, the noodles can become quite bland...
...anything but smoke." (Bing just shrugs when I ask if it's true that he hasn't left in a year. "I'm too skinny to leave," he explains. "Everyone will know I'm doing yaba.") Big has a job as a pump jockey at a Star gas station. And he has a girlfriend, and he has his motorcycle, a Honda GSR 125. This weekend, like most weekends, he'll be racing his bike with the other guys from the neighborhood, down at Bangkok's superslum Klong Toey. That's why tonight, a few days before the race...