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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22737)	3/24/2005 3:15:06 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 81070

Re: And this rubbish is evidence of a major nuclear event off the coast of Sumatra?! Gus, what are you smoking? The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its Radiological Impact on the U.K. Dr. Jackie Pates (j.pates@lancaster.ac.uk) 1) The Accident es.lancs.ac.uk

To: sea_urchin who wrote (22737)	3/24/2005 3:35:34 AM
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Chernobyl's radioactive cloud: unit5.org

To: sea_urchin who wrote (22737)	3/24/2005 6:14:30 AM
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Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz amazon.com Editorial Reviews About the Author Clyde Prestowitz is President of the Economic Strategy Institute in Washington, D.C., and is the author of Trading Places and Rogue Nation. He lives in Potomac, Maryland. *Product Description:* From one of our shrewdest economic trend-spotters, a wake-up call that prosperity is about to shift from the West to the East, and what we can do before it's too late. By the beginning of this century it was already commonplace to speak of the U.S. as a "hyperpower," to talk of its military, political, and economic clout as unprecedented in world history, and to assume that American dominance would continue at least throughout our lifetimes. It is conventional wisdom that America will have no serious rivals for at least a generation. But the American position is far more fragile and ephemeral than much of the world believes. Clyde Prestowitz shows the powerful yet barely visible trends that are threatening to end the six-hundred-year run of Western domination of the world. The trends include America's increasingly unsustainable trade deficits; the equally unsustainable (and dangerous) buildup of massive dollar reserves in places like Japan and China; the end of America's position as the world's premier center for invention and technological innovation; the sudden entrance of 2.5 billion people in India and China into the world's skilled job market; the role of the World Wide Web in permitting many formerly localized jobs to be done anywhere in the world; and the demographic meltdown of Europe, Japan, Russia, and, in later decades, even China. Three Billion New Capitalists is a clear-eyed and profoundly unsettling look at America's and the world's economic future, from an author with a history of predicting the important trends long before they become apparent to others. ________________________

To: sea_urchin who wrote (22737)	3/29/2005 3:45:38 AM
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Re: And this rubbish is evidence of a major nuclear event off the coast of Sumatra?! Gus, what are you smoking? Quake Strikes Island Off Sumatra; 300 People Killed (Update5) March 29 (Bloomberg) -- A magnitude 8.7 earthquake, among the 10 most powerful worldwide since 1900, struck near the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, killing 300 people on the island of Nias, the government said... bloomberg.com ...and no tsunami?!?! How come? Searle, what are YOU smoking? BTW, notice the difference with the Dec 26 "quake": The quake, which struck at 11:09 p.m., lasted more than two minutes and caused damage as far away as the city of Medan on the east coast of Sumatra. Geologists said the temblor struck 110 miles to the south of December's quake, along the same fault line. Aftershocks continued through the night and this morning. "My legs and knees were shaking," said Popon Anarita, an aid worker who fled from the fifth floor of a hotel in Medan. "Other guests were outside already and I noticed many of them wore pajamas or only underpants. But laughing was the last thing on my mind." In Banda Aceh, the city hit hardest three months ago, Monday's temblor caused widespread panic. Residents fled their houses as the earth shook, many of them crying and praying in the streets. The quake was so strong that people could not stand and had to sit or lie on the ground. It knocked out power, shrouding the city in darkness. After the ground stopped shaking, many people rushed to higher ground out of fear that another tsunami would strike the city. Some fled without shirts or shoes. Overloaded motorbikes, cars and trucks, some with people hanging on the outside, poured out of the city, causing a midnight traffic jam. Several injuries were reported from vehicle accidents. [...] latimes.com Both quakes were actually underwater quakes(), yet the Dec 26 M9 quake didn't cause people "to sit or lie on the ground" because they "could not stand"... No tremors were felt --just the tsunami. Indeed, the couple of nuclear bombs that triggered the Dec 26 tsunami were not powerful enough to shake the ground in the surrounding islands, all/most of their energy was converted into kinetic momentum WITHIN the water mass/column. () earthquake.usgs.gov