Daily Grist: Top 10 most polluted spots, ozone hole hole-ier than ever, and more

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At 02:57 PM 10/20/06, you wrote:

>List ranks top ten most polluted spots on earth

>

>Looking for that perfect vacation getaway, where you and that special

>someone can recapture the magic by going into acute respiratory distress

>together? Look no further: The Blacksmith Institute has released a list of

>the 10 most polluted spots on earth. Chernobyl in Ukraine is the best

>known on the list; Russia has the distinction of being home to three

>hotspots, while others are in China, the Dominican Republic, India,

>Kyrgyzstan, Peru, and Zambia. They include hubs of coal production, copper

>mining, and Cold War-era chemical weapons production. Most are far from

>capital cities or tourist areas (escape the crowds!), yet still home to a

>collective 10 million people who suffer dearly from the effects of toxic

>contamination. " There are places where life expectancy approaches medieval

>rates, where birth defects are the norm not the exception, where

>children's asthma rates are measured above 90 percent, and where mental

>retardation is endemic, " the report says. Book your tickets today!

>

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>straight to the source: Planet Ark, Reuters, Timothy Gardner, 19 Oct 2006

>

>straight to the source: BBC News, 18 Oct 2006

>

>straight to the source: Houston Chronicle, Associated Press, Tracee

>Herbaugh, 18 Oct 2006

>

>straight to the list: World's Worst-Polluted Places 2006

 

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[Guest guest]

At 02:57 PM 10/20/06, you wrote:

>List ranks top ten most polluted spots on earth

>

>Looking for that perfect vacation getaway, where you and that special

>someone can recapture the magic by going into acute respiratory distress

>together? Look no further: The Blacksmith Institute has released a list of

>the 10 most polluted spots on earth. Chernobyl in Ukraine is the best

>known on the list; Russia has the distinction of being home to three

>hotspots, while others are in China, the Dominican Republic, India,

>Kyrgyzstan, Peru, and Zambia. They include hubs of coal production, copper

>mining, and Cold War-era chemical weapons production. Most are far from

>capital cities or tourist areas (escape the crowds!), yet still home to a

>collective 10 million people who suffer dearly from the effects of toxic

>contamination. " There are places where life expectancy approaches medieval

>rates, where birth defects are the norm not the exception, where

>children's asthma rates are measured above 90 percent, and where mental

>retardation is endemic, " the report says. Book your tickets today!

>

>[ email | discuss | + digg | + del.icio.us ]

>

>straight to the source: Planet Ark, Reuters, Timothy Gardner, 19 Oct 2006

>

>straight to the source: BBC News, 18 Oct 2006

>

>straight to the source: Houston Chronicle, Associated Press, Tracee

>Herbaugh, 18 Oct 2006

>

>straight to the list: World's Worst-Polluted Places 2006

 

******

Kraig and Shirley Carroll ... in the woods of SE Kentucky

http://www.thehavens.com/

thehavens

606-376-3363

 

 

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