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The lake currently holds 130 million
cubic meters of water, said Liu Ning, Ministry of Water Resources of China
chief engineer, who is in Tangjiashan to oversee the diversion. Its water level
was 725.3 meters on Monday, only 26 meters below the lowest part of the
barrier, he said.
"Around 100,000 (people) would
be evacuated to ensure the safety according to the current drainage plan,"
Liu told the Shanghai-based Oriental TV.
"It's better for them to
complain about the trouble that the evacuation would bring than to shed tears
after the possible danger," he added.
Li Huzhang, an engineer with the
armed police force, said three emergency plans had been made to
dig out the sluice. He said at least 50,000 cubic meters of debris blockage
would have to be removed. Rescuers, however, were aiming to remove 100,000
cubic meters of debris if the weather allowed to minimize the bursting risk.
International News
I suspend my campaign
Every moment wasted looking back
keeps us from moving forward. Life is too short, time is too precious, and the
stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together
for what still can be. And that is why I will work my heart out to make sure
that Senator Obama is our next president.
When we first started, people
everywhere asked the same questions. Could a woman really serve as
commander-in-chief? Well, I think we answered that one.
As we gather here today in this
historic, magnificent building, the 50th woman to leave this Earth is orbiting
overhead. If we can blast 50 women into space, we will someday launch a woman
into the White House.
Although we weren't able to shatter
that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18
million cracks in it...
and the light is shining through like
never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path
will be a little easier next time.
Industry News
Smoking was associated with mental
decline in middle age
Middle-aged
adults who smoke tended to perform poorly on tests of memory and reasoning
compared to nonsmokers, adding to the list of reasons not to smoke, French
researchers said on Monday.
Analyzing
previously collected data on about 5,000 British civil servants, the
researchers found those who smoked were more likely than people who never
smoked to be in the lowest-performing of five groups in tests of memory,
reasoning, vocabulary and verbal fluency.
Smoking
was associated with mental decline in middle age, as it is with dementia and a
host of physical ills later in life, they found.
"Smoking
in middle age is associated with memory deficit and decline in reasoning
abilities," concluded Severine Sabia and colleagues from the National
Institute of Health and Medical Research in
Compared
to smokers, people who said they had quit cigarettes were more likely to adopt
healthier behaviors, such as drinking less alcohol, being more physically
active, and eating more fruits and vegetables, Sabia reported in the journal
Archives of Internal Medicine.
The
participants were aged 35 to 55 at the beginning of the study, which followed
some subjects up to 17 years.
The
study also demonstrated how difficult it can be to conduct long-term research
on smokers: more than twice as many smokers as non-smokers refused to take the
memory test again or were not able to be re-tested, in some cases because they
died in the interim.
Domestic News
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President
Vicente Fox declared a state of emergency today in Colima, a coastal state hit
overnight by a powerful earthquake that rolled across central
It
took only minutes on Saturday June 23rd for a powerful 8.1 earthquake to rip
through southern
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When
he was working on Monday afternoon, Tan said he sg