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...town of Tokaimura, none of the 33,900 residents could see the flash or know that radiation was escaping. Nor did they find out soon. Members of the Kawano family, who live in the vicinity, were drawing water from the family well to wash vegetables and brush their teeth. Two hours after the accident, teenager Yoshitaka Nanbara wandered to a friend's house, just a few yards from the facility's back fence. The two youngsters spent an hour or so playing Biohazard on a Sony PlayStation. Loudspeakers mounted on telephone poles around the town, built to warn of nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Japan Syndrome | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Most patients aren't just happy with the results; they're positively gleeful. "Everything is so clear," says Yvonne Chapman, a registered nurse in Los Angeles who had her corneas reshaped six months ago. "I still go into the bathroom before bed every night to wash my hands and take my contacts out because I think I have them in." Never mind that LASIK costs upwards of $2,500 an eye and isn't covered by most insurance companies. We're talking about seeing your toes in the shower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: R U Ready To Dump Your Glasses? | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...world, only geeks with fast fingers will get to work at Microsoft and make mucho bucks and be millionaires, so they can impress Puget Sound bambinas, mate and have geeky bambinos with faster and longer fingers. Where have all the strong men gone? Long time passing... GEORGE CONESA Bellingham, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...times higher than normal were reported around the plant, the site of Japan?s previous worst nuclear accident two years ago, when 35 workers were contaminated by an explosion. Local schools were ordered to keep their windows closed, and 300,000 people living in the vicinity were advised to wash off any rain that fell on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Accidents, Japan Is Unlikely to Nix Nukes | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...explosion within the besieged domicile. This is like crew members of the Enola Gay saying that although they did drop a certain atomic device over Hiroshima in 1945, the inevitable explosion was not a result of anything they did. Rather, the Japanese somehow nuked themselves. ROBERT GLENN Edmonds, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1999 | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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