Cleaning Up After a Dirty Bomb
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Scientists develop an absorbant gel that can remove radioactivity from concrete, but don't count on the government hearing aid. Bodyhack reports from AAAS.
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We should all be thankful for the army of volunteers who turned out to clean up Saltburn beach.   This is exactly the sort of public-spirited action we need if we are to make the most of our area.
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Somewhere in the world, there's a navy blue suitcase with a small pack of explosives tucked in its side pocket. Four days after police at Charles de Gaulle Airport slipped some plastic explosives into a random passenger's bag as part of an exercise for sniffer dogs, it is still missing &#151; and authorities are stumped and embarrassed.
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SIX binmen were taken to hospital today after a split rubbish bag caused a chemical alert in Ilford. The men were handling rubbish in Elgin Road at 7.50am when the bag split, spilling liquid onto the ground and releasing toxic fumes which they inhaled.
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The substance, recovered from an Iraqi munitions factory in 1996, was removed today by a Haz-Mat team.
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By Brian Alexander, Seattle Times  Jun. 20--Seattle hazardous materials crews are investigating a chemical odor at a waste transfer station in South Seattle.   The fire department received a report about 4 p.m.
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Specialists make bombs from common household items to help the FBI defend against low-tech terrorist threats in the United States. By the Associated Press.
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Experts are cleaning up toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast which killed seven people and poisoned thousands.
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In brief Mopping up the minorities
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BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - When residents smelled a foul odor coming from a nearby home, they thought it was a meth lab and called firefighters. But firefighters entered the house only to find it full of garbage, authorities said.
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_ Palestinians retrieved belongings from the rubble of homes and work crews patched up roads and water pipes Saturday in the aftermath of Israel&#39;s deadliest offensive in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting.
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People in Florida and Alabama have started to clean up after hurricane Ivan - the third such pummelling for Florida alone in just five weeks.
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Police last night cleared a Gold Coast apartment building of explosive devices, following a 17-hour stand-off with police. A 43-year-old man from Coombabah on the Gold Coast has been charged over the incident.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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A visitor to Patong in Thailand describes the clean-up operation following the devastation left by the tsunami waves.
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Emergency comes a week after earthquake caused radioactive spill at separate facility.
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By THOMAS B. LANGHORNE, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7432 or langhornet@courierpress.com  Covered in mud and their nostrils assaulted by foul odors, about 30 volunteers worked Saturday to clean up a longtime dump site near Pigeon Creek.