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Jeffords was moved. "That's the worst emotional experience I've been through," he told TIME. "These are all wonderful friends of mine. They were frustrated, as I had been over the years, but they nevertheless wanted to stay with the party." Wait a few days, the Senators begged, and make this decision after a good night's rest...
...office. A cubicle, actually. The pictures are mine, as are the figurines, but the walls were like this when I got here. The lantern, that's from a restaurant that was going out of business. And the acolyte is really my computer, which, thanks to a variety of new websites, discussion groups and cyberapostles, is all I need to transform office space into spiritual space. I can explore or practice religion and religions with a few keystrokes. I can "attend" sermons and listen to calls to prayer, seek advice and philosophy. And I don't have to go anywhere...
...Even if you take the lowest estimates, it would be absolutely devastating," says Ed Pressman, who works for the American mining giant Newmont, which operates a mine 100 km south of Manado. "It's one of the great, unrecognized environmental disasters of our time." Then Pressman mentions a name that has been burned into the world's consciousness along with Bhopal and Chernobyl: Minamata...
...threat from the mercury has spread beyond the villages around the mining site. The processing units are highly mobile, with some located as far as 50 km away, says Rini Sulaiman, an environmental toxicologist with the U.S.-funded National Resources Management Program. And that, says Daniel Limbong, means the mercury contamination will eventually threaten the 400,000 people living in Manado. It could be happening already. According to Limbong, samples taken from sediment in the estuary of the Talawaan river where it empties in Manado Bay are almost at the levels seen in samples taken where the river passes...
...unit workers like Michael, gold-struck villagers like Freddy Sigarlaki, the army and police?wants things to go on as they are. Or like Fecky, who lives next to a processing unit, and powerless government officials like Bonny, who simply accept that there's no way to stop the mining. Everyone except Daniel Limbong, that is. Unlike the others, he has seen what happened to scores of other mineworkers, what happened to Femmy's baby boy. And now, "we have a report of a second deformed baby born near the mine," Limbong says, his usually impassive face creased with concern...