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  1. Radiation Spike Detected in Ocean Near Japanese Nuclear Plant !

    Link RemovedJapan's nuclear safety agency says radioactive iodine has been detected at more than 3,000 times the allowable level in the ocean near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Officials said Wednesday that the water sample, with the highest levels yet recorded, was collected about 300...
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  2. Japanese firemen battle invisible danger

    The most difficult thing in a nuclear crisis, the Tokyo firefighter said, was the inability to sense where the danger was. The Tokyo Fire Department's elite rescue team was among those called in to cool down a nuclear plant north of the capital that was badly damaged by a March 11 earthquake...
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  3. Stolen ostrich escapes and runs home

    An ostrich stolen from a farm in Romania showed homing pigeon skills after managing to escape from her captors to run all the way home at 40mph. The big flightless birds, native to Africa, are famous for their ability to run at high speeds but are not so well known for their homing...
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  4. Japan earthquake: Relief amid horror for British survivors of tsunami

    Worried families of Britons feared dead in the Japanese tsunami have spoken of their huge relief as they finally heard from their loved ones. Dawn Pearson, 66, had an agonising wait over the weekend until son Adam, who had been teaching English in the town of Kuji, got in touch. ‘It...
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  5. Japan tsunami: Here's how you can help

    Link Removed Sailors aboard the US 7th Fleet command ship USS Blue Ridge move pallets of humanitarian relief supplies across the ship's flight deck during an underway replenishment in the South China Sea on Saturday, March 12. Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Fidel C. Hart/US...
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  6. Japan's nuclear evacuees wonder if they'll ever see home again

    More than 200,000 people have been ordered out of an area within a 12-mile radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where two reactors have gone into partial meltdown. Link Removed Volunteer emergency workers help an elderly citizen who was among those evacuated from the 12-mile...
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  7. Chilean miners rescue – live coverage

    • Rescue operation begins to free 33 trapped Chilean miners • Relief after men spend 68 days 700m underground http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/oct/12/chilean-miners-rescue-live-coverage
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    UAW Lunch Break

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