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Wild Monkeys are going to measure radiation? At first it sounded like some kind of training involved but all it is, is a meter reading strapped on. Yes there are plenty of wild monkeys in the region near the stricken areas near Fukushima. How will they react? Do they know something is wrong? Again, poor animals. They’re always getting taken advantage of. (TelegraphUK – monkeys)
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Wakana Ueda, 11 finished the Honolulu Marathon in 14 hours. The last person to cross the line, it’s hard to imagine that she’d want to do this 26 mile course. The cynic says that she was put up to it, but she did it and it’s an amazing feat. The marathon took place December 11.
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Chenzhuang Village, China, Wonderland sites exposed to the elements. It’s been sitting since 1998 and was photographed by Photographer David Gray from Reuters. (The Atlantic – Wonderland)
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Chizuru Nakagawa is a volunteer who packed her things from Tokyo and went to a town she’d never heard of to help. Months and months later as the town is slowly picking up where it all went wrong, she’s still there and is part of the fabric of the rebuilding. It sounds typical in a way, since there are always human interest stories of a person doing something straight out of a hero book. This is just another one of them. (Stripes – Chizuru Nakagawa)
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Google Maps show you the disaster area. Literally scroll through areas. It’s odd but at the same time, this is as close as most will experience. View Larger Map
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