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...Chemical Valley," has been a source of public concern for almost a year. Its output includes methyl isocyanate (MIC), the gas that killed 2,500 people and injured 200,000 when it leaked from a Union Carbide unit in Bhopal, India, last December. After that horror, the manufacturer shut down Institute's MIC unit for five months and spent $5 million improving its safety and production equipment...
...whines, pleads. Then along comes Aaron, who responds to the dead diarist--and in so doing becomes a flesh-and-blood character. Inman says at one point that "a diary expurgated and deleted is a eunuch of a diary." Aaron says at another, "Oh, for God's sake, Arthur, SHUT...
...another jolt in what has been a bumpy start to the summer scream season. In April a teenager and her 11-year-old cousin were stranded for more than an hour atop the new Insanity ride above the Las Vegas Strip when high winds caused the ride to shut down. At Disney World in Orlando, Fla., a 4-year-old boy died after passing out on Mission: Space, a turbulent motion-simulator ride. (An investigation is under way; no safety problems have been found.) And the new Kingda Ka roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., billed...
...friends he can get. When he arrived at the Bank on June 1, many of the 8,000 staff members in its Washington headquarters were skeptical of the idea of a neocon boss straight out of the Pentagon. Some feared the Bank's Iranian division would be shut down to penalize the theocratic regime. Others thought Wolfowitz might be a halfhearted leader; in the minds of some conspiracy theorists, the Bush Administration had tapped Wolfowitz for the job to prove that World Bank-style aid doesn't work. A satirical staff newsletter imagined that instead of bopping around Washington...
...government has jailed ethnic Uighurs who complained about Han Chinese repression of Islamic culture. The government also controls the media (a Chinese assistant in the New York Times's Beijing bureau was detained in September for allegedly leaking state secrets), and it blocks websites it doesn't like: authorities shut down Everything Is a Mess, a lively political site...