Naftalan Journal: Bathing in Black Gold for Health and Profit in Azerbaijan
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Petroleum spas are making an unlikely return in a country so awash in oil these days that people are swimming in it.
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Newmont Mining Corp. has admitted to having put tons of mercury vapors into the air in Buyat Bay, North Sulawesi, but insists that the mercury did not have negative impacts on the bay and its people.
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According to "Tehran Times", a petrochemical complex will be built in this northwestern Iranian city in the next three years to produce 1.1 million tons of urea and 600,000 tons of ammonia annually.Arak Petrochemical Co.
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Australia's conservative government has offered to supply a remote Aboriginal township with fuel if parents agreed to wash their children, under a controversial plan to end health problems plaguing indigenous communities.
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Urban spas offering services ranging from baths simulating far-flung, exotic locations to cultural oil massages are mushrooming in Asia, creating a new money spinner for the travel industry.
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According to "Tehran Times", Iran has exported over 12.5 million tons of petrochemical products worth more than $5.3 billion during the first eleven months of the current Iranian year (started March 21, 2006), the Islamic Republic of Iran's Customs Administration (IRICA) reported.
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Newmont Mining Corporation, the world's biggest gold producer, has been trailed by allegations of pollution.
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Russian men risk death by drinking aftershave and cleaning agents with high levels of alcohol, a study suggests.
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The removal of graves pose a challenge to the multi-billion dollar oil pipeline planned to  transport oil from Azerbaijan to Turkey.
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NEW YORK  - Heavy drinking, including alcohol-based liquids not meant to be ingested, such as cologne or cleansers, caused nearly half of all deaths among working-age men living in Izhevsk, Russia, between 2003 and 2005, investigators report in The Lancet.
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Excerpt from report by Tajik news agency Asia-Plus website  International norms on the use of transborder water are making the "Tajik dream" totally senseless. Now all of them regret about this.
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China is filthy and needs to spend lots of money to clean up. American companies could get that business.
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Doctors in Russia say they have developed a cream that can stop hayfever in its tracks.
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Gold miners on  Russia&#39;s Kamchatka peninsula contend with volcanic eruptions,  floods and poor infrastructure, but high metal prices mean the  hard work pays off.
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By ANTONIO VELARDE  GREENSBORO __ Imagine taking a shower before your morning class with a bucket next to you, to catch your bath water.
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The ritual baths that Jewish women take to fulfill purity requirements are getting a makeover
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QANDIL MOUNTAIN RANGE, Iraq -- Sunrise came to the women's camp in shafts of white light through woven roofs, but Aristan Manzur slept past 10. She had a fever again, and fluid blocked the air in her lungs.