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...Soviets last week disclosed a few new details about the accident. In Vienna, Boris Semyonov, a governor of the International Atomic Energy Agency, raised the official death toll from nine victims to 15, and said that 20 people remain gravely ill from radiation sickness. Members of the energy agency later agreed to draw up plans to provide early warning and detailed information about future accidents. While Soviet papers did not report the new death toll, some publications continued to complain about exaggerated foreign reports of the disaster and wildly distorted rumors. One tale making the rounds, according to the weekly...
...suffering at Chernobyl. He reported that two workers had been killed by the initial explosion and flames that tore through the plant at 1:23 in the morning, and that seven other people had died after being treated for acute radiation sickness. By week's end the death toll had climbed to 13. In all, 299 victims were hospitalized (see box). The Soviet leader said that it was too early to determine the precise cause of the accident, which apparently began with a sudden power surge while the reactor was undergoing maintenance. That was followed by a devastating hydrogen blast...
...risk clients has spread to other fields. Chicago-based Docketsearch Network Corp. has compiled the names of 2.2 million Americans who have filed medical-malpractice, product-liability or personal-injury lawsuits. Doctors who subscribe to its $150-a-year Physician's Alert service can call a special toll-free number, give a prospective patient's name, and within 25 seconds find out if the individual has a penchant for filing lawsuits and ought to be handled with care. This summer Docketsearch plans to expand its listings to include records of bankruptcies, tax liens and workers' compensation claims. "We have...
Today 30 inmates answer phones for anywhere from 20 to 40 hours a week, handling about 5% of all calls to Best Western's toll-free number. They earn $4.42 an hour, the same starting wage as the company's regular operators, but the convicts hand over 30% of the money to the prison to pay for room and board. Ronald Evans, Best Western's chief executive officer, calls the program a "resounding success that has solved a legitimate business need...
...weeks after a number of vintners were first discovered to be adulterating their low-priced table wines with methyl alcohol, which is more commonly used as a paint solvent, at least 22 Italians had died and about 90 others were hospitalized after drinking the contaminated product. As the death toll rose, the Italian government listed some 300 labels as suspect, prompting worldwide concern and threatening the country's $953 million wine-export trade...