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...ordered inquiries into the dams' collapse. The structures, built 24 years ago, had been sold by one mining company to another before being taken over by the present owner, the Prealpi Mineraria company of Bergamo, in 1980. The dam complex had consisted of two earthen dams that had created wash basins for filtering and extracting fluorite, a mineral used in making glass. Recent heavy thunderstorms were blamed for the immediate collapse of the dams, but some experts alleged that there might have been an excessive buildup of mud in the lakes from the mineral-extraction process. "Nature does not come...
...covered its life since the early 1960s: "Things are getting tougher, more clinical. If there is a protest march or a funeral procession, you will find buckets of water placed at every house along the way. That's in case there is tear gas, so the marchers can wash it from their eyes and their faces. That was not true at the time of the Soweto riots in 1976. The children have become more politicized. They have left the adults behind. The system is helping people to become united...
...owned the collapsed mining-company dams, as well as the firm's manager, were arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter and causing a disaster. Authorities summoned 60 people for questioning about operations at the two dams and the apparent failure to inspect the structures properly. Investigators suspect the wash basins behind the dams had been expanded illegally, making the surrounding earth unstable. Giuseppe Zamberletti, Italy's Minister of Civil Defense, declared the disaster was "not linked to natural factors but obviously due to actions and omissions...
...fellow gunslinger Michael M. Klinger ’05-’06, the heroes of last month’s FM cover story, which followed the Harvard Policy Debate team to Chicago for a smaller competition that ended in brilliant, promising victory. Things went worse in Spokane, Wash., last week, with the bad luck starting on day one, when Klinger and Tarloff were passed up for the year-end Copeland Award in favor of those villains from Northwestern, the pair’s longtime rivals...
...that Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen once called the "the coolest in N?rrebro." Politicians aren't normally arbiters of hip, but with the Laundromat Caf?, tel: (45) 3535 2672, Rasmussen might be right. In a colorful setting of red lamps, red booths and coffee-colored walls, you can wash your clothes or pore over any of 4,000 secondhand books on sale. Icelandic owner Fridrik Weisshappel J?nsson says people have warmed to the concept "because modern-city living places importance on saving time, and here they can have lunch and do a daily chore...