Word: toxicants
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...This is déjà vu, I said to myself when I saw the pictures of a flood of trash floating on a Jakarta river and bike commuters wearing masks to protect themselves from toxic diesel fumes in Kanpur, India. Those are the same scenes we saw in Kitakyushu and other cities in the 1960s and '70s, when Japan was notorious as the archipelago of kogai, or environmental disruption. I was one of the victims of the choking smog at that time. Asians are starting to put more pressure on their governments to tackle staggering environmental problems, but time...
...Last November, the Songhua River (in the northeast of the country) absorbed 100 metric tons of toxic benzene after an explosion at a chemical plant. The extent of the danger was made public only after household taps for 9 million people in the city of Harbin had been shut off, and just days before the slick crossed the border into Russia. The botched response led to the dismissal of China's top environmental official and to renewed calls for transparency and stricter enforcement of environmental standards. But little has changed. Recently Pan Yue, deputy director of China's State Environmental...
...brother and six sisters were sleeping. "The house collapsed," he says. "My mother was dead, my stepfather was dead, my brother, dead. My mother was pregnant." Ali believes some of his sisters may have escaped. As a result of his burns, Ali is suffering from septicemia, which is spreading toxic bacteria through his body. His condition should be treated in a sterilized location, but Ali lies on a bed near an open window, a dirty towel suspended over his chest. His nurse says the boy is quiet when he's alone and never cries out in pain. "He just wants...
...campaigning, people will come up to Kean Jr. and tell him that his dad is one of their favorite politicians, to which the son replies, "Mine too." On a recent trip to campaign for Kean, South Dakota G.O.P. Senator John Thune told a crowd, "Washington has become a toxic place... it's high time to have another Kean in politics. When you have come from that kind of heritage of public service, you just have it in your bones...
...shadow of the Korean War. He had diplomatic postings in New Delhi and Washington, at the U.N. and in Vienna before becoming South Korea's Foreign Minister in 2004. The years abroad gave him global contacts and helped protect his reputation from the taint of South Korea's toxic political environment. "He doesn't make enemies," says Yang Sun Mook, a senior official of the country's opposition Democratic Party. "He makes friends." But Ban can also be tough. In the face of opposition from his own diplomats, Ban reformed Seoul's foreign ministry, replacing a promotion system based...