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...Zhou Tong and Liu Hao were among those unlucky enough to learn first-hand about the lingering danger. The two boys, aged 12 and eight at the time, were playing in a river in northeastern China's Jilin Province in 2004, when they came into contact with toxins that had leaked from the abandoned arms. The boys lived, but the illness induced by their exposure forced them to drop out of school. The Japanese government refused to pay damages to the boys' families, despite acknowledging that abandoned chemical weapons had been the cause of their sickness. Such cases inflame longstanding...
...that his economic policies are working. Placating farmers is particularly important given that rural Malaysia is the National Front's core constituency. And even in the urban areas, Abdullah's renowned blandness could actually help him. "The thing about him is that no one hates him," says Liew Chin Tong, an election-strategy adviser for the opposition Democratic Action Party. "That makes it hard to rally support against...
...ANNA L. TONG...
...Staff writer Anna L. Tong can be reached at tong@fas.harvard.edu...
...case brought by the 19-year-old undergraduate, Hale said, “It was a lot easier to push forward with this despite all the setbacks knowing that I was not just doing this for myself,” Hale said. —Anna L. Tong contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...