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...Regardless, Nanking is bound to cause deeply uneasy feelings in Japan, where many members of the extreme right either deny that the massacre occurred, or claim that the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal greatly exaggerated the death toll when it concluded that Japanese troops killed about 260,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians in Nanjing between 1937 and 1938. (Some also argue that photos of the atrocities were faked, including the beheading shown at left). At a news conference on Jan. 24, filmmaker Satoru Mizushima-who also runs a Japanese satellite-TV station-lashed out at Nanking, calling it "a setup...
...then all hell would be let loose. Iraq is a country where almost every household has at least one AK-47. If there is no Sunni-Shi'ite rapprochement, a full-blown civil war would raise the daily death toll from the scores to the hundreds--to say nothing of the escalation that would come if neighboring countries became involved, Iran backing the Shi'ite militias, Arab states sponsoring the Sunnis. Such a war could continue for years, with each sectarian community splitting into smaller factions led by rival warlords. In Baghdad, the ethnic cleansing would continue to its logical...
...disruptions of last Wednesday's storm were compounded when the airline was unable to fully recover in the days that followed. Most of the problems were related to staffing issues. JetBlue, which books 80% of its tickets online, did not have enough reservations agents on its toll-free line to handle all of the rescheduling. At Kennedy Airport, there was not enough trained staff to work on rebooking. And the unit in charge of locating pilots and flight attendants and assigning them to their next flight was overwhelmed. By late Monday, JetBlue had canceled more than 1,000 flights...
...home this past holiday weekend despite a recent accident. Last Wednesday, a speeding Fung Wah passenger bus heading from Boston to New York crashed on I-90. The driver, Jimmy Chow, lost control of the vehicle and veered into the right guardrail at Exit 19, near the Allston-Brighton toll booths, according to Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Robert Bousquet. The bus held 35 passengers, none of whom sustained injuries. The disabled bus was towed from the scene, shutting down the Turnpike for five minutes, Bousquet said. A second Fung Wah bus was dispatched soon after to transport the passengers...
...lack of caregivers, medicine and medical equipment in Iraq is taking an increasing toll on the overall wellness of the country, which had the best health care system in the Middle East for decades prior to 1991. But more than a decade of international sanctions followed by years of war since 2003 have left health care in Iraq little better than many of the least developed countries in the world. Infant mortality, a key indicator of public health, has risen in Iraq since the U.S. invasion of 2003. The most recent statistics from the Iraqi Health Ministry puts infant mortality...