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S o r n i wrote:
Zoot Katz wrote: wrote: [etc] It's a shame when you stalkers from r.b.misc drag your petty little disagreements and fascinations into r.b.racing, where we like to keep a high and dignified tone to the discussion. "High" in multiple senses, of course. To divert from your exciting rivalry to the original subject of Sasha Zinoviev's untimely death, Kharkov (Kharkiv) is east of Kiev and Chernobyl, in the opposite direction from the main radioactive plume. While the cancer rate in Ukraine is (unacceptably) high, it's by no means certain nor should one assume that his daughter's going to be orphaned. AFAIK, the worst epidemiological effect has been very high rates of children developing thyroid cancer. Ben |
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"S o r n i" wrote in message ... Zoot Katz wrote: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:13:30 GMT, et, "B Lafferty" wrote: The daughter left behind could well be an orphan in the not too distant future--hopefully not. Here's one of the most chilling photo journals I've seen on the aftermath of Chernobyl. Ghost towns in the dead zone, "where one can ride with no stoplights, no police, no danger to hit some cage or some dog." http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm Wasn't this recently proved to be a hoax or fraud? Just heard something about it a day or so ago. A quick Google produced many hits, including: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/w...comments/1026/ She probably played golf with her husband on a Gameboy, too. Bill S. True or not. I actually saw some of the sites pictured. I was traveling through "the dead zone", Pripyat' and Chernobyl itself in summer 2001. You could see at some points yellow forest interchanging with green ones around the zone. Inside, with the checkpoints and everything, I saw people. I was surprised and thought people get to come and see what's left, but they actually live there. I took a couple of pictures off the bridge where you could see the plant itself. The readings through the checkpoints read 0.017, while Kiev's was 0.020. Weird, but true. Oh and those people who come back to live in their houses in the zone were said to die within 5 years. |
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Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:07:53 GMT,
, "C A III A" wrote: Oh and those people who come back to live in their houses in the zone were said to die within 5 years. The one anecdote that really sounded Russian was something about it being better to die of radiation at home than to die of homesickness somewhere else. -- zk |
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