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From: Snowshoe8/19/2009 11:57:48 PM
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Lead poisoning stokes tensions in Chinese town

By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 56 mins ago

CHANGQING, China – Farmer Wang Zhifan jabs a stubby finger toward the sprawling smelter blamed for poisoning hundreds of local children with lead. He bares his yellowed teeth and spits hard.

"That thing is like a nuclear bomb for us," the 61-year-old says in a voice that seems to carry down the steep slope and into the corn fields that run to the smelter's fence. "There's just no saving us."

more: news.yahoo.com



Village children who tested positive for lead poisoning display the results of their blood tests, at a village in Fengxiang county, West of Xi'an, China, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Dozens of police and plainclothes officers guarded the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Co. plant in central Shaanxi on Wednesday, days after hundreds of villagers stormed the factory because more than 600 children from two nearby villages had been sickened by lead poisoning. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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