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Just laugh and twitch
For Mike Hallowell, laughing is a disaster. He always had to prepare a calm face and was not allowed to laugh at any happy or funny emotions that appeared in him and tho…
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Superhuman intelligence is a disaster for people?
Movies and science fiction books are always excited with the idea of creating a race of people with supernatural intelligence.
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Medical disaster caused 10,000 malformed children
Thalidomide is advertised as a sedative, relief of unpleasant morning sickness, and can be used by pregnant women, allegedly responsible for birth defects of more than 1…
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Fukushima seafood 're-export' market after nuclear disaster
For the first time after more than a year of a nuclear leak at Fukushima Daichi (Japan), a number of seafood caught at the coast near the factory has been on the market…
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The only person living in the dead land near Fukushima
There is only Naoto Matsumura in Tomioka, no electricity, no running water, fighting loneliness and the threat of radiation by taking care of a large herd of animals.
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Tsunami victim: 'Buddha saved us'
After a sudden and intense attack on a series of earthquakes and tsunamis, all 65 families in Aramachi were devastated. The disaster killed 16 residents of the area. Tha…
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Life revived on Fukushima 'dead land'
Hirono, the town affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, became the first place to welcome people back home after being evacuated for a year.
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Japanese tsunami, the battle is still not over
Takeshi Kanno only has 40 minutes. The earthquake shook the whole town, he guessed the tsunami would happen and swallow the hospital. You have to save more than a hundre…
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Japanese earthquake / tsunami: Looking back at the numbers
The Japanese earthquake and tsunami on March 11 last year claimed thousands of lives, causing widespread devastation and the world's worst nuclear crisis in the last 25…
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Life in the dead land in Japan
Iitate used to be a village, where people ride bicycles to work, children play in the park and the elderly read newspapers on the porch. But Iitate now has nothing. The…
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'Scar' in the heart of Japanese tsunami victims
12 months after the tsunami, Yuko Sugimoto was reunited with her family and living in a shelter, but the scars from the double disaster were still haunting her mind and…
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Disaster of the HIV-infected organ transplant for 5 patients
Due to some errors, doctors used organs from an HIV-infected patient to transplant for 5 people.
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The culprit caused the Bari port disaster
In the search for anticancer drugs, many famous anticancer drugs began the cause of human salvation not from miraculous effects but from death and disasters. Mustard gas…
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Harmful effects of plutonium radioactivity
Takahashi Sentaro analyzed the harmful effects of plutonium by discovering plutonium in the Fukushima nuclear power plant No. I.
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Joining hands to ease the pain of Agent Orange
With more than 4.8 million people exposed, including more than 3 million people who are victims of 80 million liters of toxic chemicals, 61% are Agent Orange containing…