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...major industrial accident that rocked the Jilin Petrochemical Company last month. The 50-year-old facility, built with Soviet technology, is China's showcase chemical complex, alma mater to the country's top chemical engineers. On the afternoon of Nov. 13, pressure built up in a 40-m tower at plant No. 101, where nitric acid and benzene are combined to make nitrobenzene, a highly toxic liquid. Technicians tried to relieve the pressure but failed, and the column exploded, killing five workers and injuring 70 others. Five more explosions followed. The blasts broke windows and produced a massive, orange cloud...
...countless others in West Africa. Goats and donkeys meander down the dirt lanes, and women scrub clothes in the river. But Ambadedi has cherished luxuries that are absent from other remote parts of Mali. There is a generator that lights up most of the houses every night. A water tower feeds water to several collection points. And television antennas bristle from the rooftops of two-story concrete houses - a far cry from the mud hut in which old Mamadou was raised. Villagers have even started dreaming about building a bridge across the river to connect Ambadedi to the nearest highway...
...embrace of the Jabal Nugum and Aiban mountain ranges at 2,200 m above sea level?the altitude ensures a gentle climate?and neither natural forces or invaders have leveled its 103 mosques, 14 hammams and 6,000 houses built before the 11th century. Its six- to eight-story tower houses of lime-washed mud brick could lay claim to being the world's first high-rises...
...curved daggers and sarongs stroll past while animated Somalians in red, orange, yellow and green robes barter with customers on Ta'Izz Road, south of the gate. If you really want to be in the thick of all this life, skip the Sheraton and bed down in a hotel tower house, or fonduk. They offer basic facilities, but have incredible atmosphere and great roof-terrace views. Check out Arabia Felix, tel: (967-1) 287 330; www.al-bab.com/arabiafelix or the Golden Dar, tel: (967-1) 273 055. It's hard to sleep in with all those dawn calls to prayer...
Besides, it would never matter that you criticized our ivory tower. Criticism for the sake of criticism yields interesting responses, if ones that are of the I-cut-myself-to-make-the-pain-real ilk. Yup, rants from Harvard’s poor, sad, populous of aspiring i-bankers have led to, well, not much. You’ve been totally ineffective! Solid...