The pursuit of nuclear bombs by the radicals ruling Iran is directly connected to this belief, as war, chaos, and lawlessness must engulf the world to pave the way for Imam Mahdi's reappearance.

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The drama at the six-reactor facility has compounded the Asian nation's agony after the natural disasters left more than 28,000 people dead or missing in the devastated northeast.

"I apologize for making people worried," Sakae Muto, vice-president of under-pressure TEPCO, said at a briefing around midnight in Tokyo.
Yet he stressed the traces of plutonium 238, 239 and 240 were not dangerous and work would not be stopped.

Posted: 10:11:12 PM  

Radiation at the nuclear plant has soared in recent days, with a reading on Sunday showing contamination 100,000 times normal in water at reactor No. 2.

But radiation levels in the nearby sea, which had soared on Sunday to 1,850 times normal, had come down sharply, Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director general of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, told a news conference on Monday.

Posted: 9:35:11 AM  

These 12 visionary films take a more realistic approach by creating dismal futures caused by present-day problems like global warming, wildlife extinctions and resource depletion.

See these pictures with 'another eye' ...

Posted: 9:24:46 AM  

As if it wasn't enough (Japan) - it's almost time for another bigone.

Nice typo ;-)

Posted: 9:01:04 AM  

Radio emissions like these are caused by plasma instabilities in the sun's atmosphere above sunspots. With the sun becoming 'radio-active,' it's no coincidence that sunspots are emerging in abundance.

6 sunspots ...

Posted: 8:59:10 AM  

A female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines.

She had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

Posted: 8:45:51 AM