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Meanwhile, India waits. Death toll rates range from 20,000 to 100,000, while countless others remain injured or homeless in the wake of the massive natural disaster. Infrastructure has been destroyed. And disease is spreading rapidly...
...final toll in the subcontinent's worst earthquake in 50 years could rise to 15,000 dead. Another 33,000 were injured, according to Gujarat officials. Villages near the quake's epicenter, a dry, barren region high above the Arabian Sea, were pulverized and all the more prostrate for their remoteness: help didn't get through until 24 hours after the quake struck. Ahmedabad, Gujarat's largest city with a population of 3.6 million people, and Bhuj, a walled city of 150,000 near Ground Zero, were hit hardest. In Bhuj, over 90% of the buildings were sledge-hammered...
...Moscow In a move meant more to calm criticism abroad than at home, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial troop withdrawal from the troubled region of Chechnya, where rebel guerrillas continue to take their toll on weary Russian armed forces. While Putin did not specify troop numbers, officials said that as many as 80,000 soldiers could leave Chechnya in the coming months. The pullout, however, remains merely a declared intention. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe welcomed the statement and restored full voting rights to Russia, which were suspended in April last year over Russia...
...sure, Pinochet's life over the past three years has been a miserable story of unending flight - from legions of prosecutors the world over determined to bring him to book for crimes he is alleged to have authored. And his fight to evade prosecution appears to have taken its toll on the 85-year-old general, who only last weekend spent a night in the hospital after suffering what doctors called a "mini stroke...
...each year, about 1,500 will eventually die from a cancer induced by the radiation of those scans. Children are especially vulnerable because their rapidly dividing cells are more susceptible to radiation damage and also because they will live long enough for even slow-growing cancers to take their toll. Perhaps the biggest risk factor, investigated by the second study, led by Dr. Lane Donnelly at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital, is that too many CAT scanners are giving kids adult-size doses of X rays, often several times higher than necessary...