sounds like a book i would never read. (and thats say'n someth'n)

Doubts Raised on Book’s Tale of Atom Bomb

By: William J. Broad

Published: February 20, 2010

A new book about the atomic destruction of Hiroshima has won critical acclaim with its heartbreaking portrayals of the bomb’s survivors and is set to be made into a movie by James Cameron.

My Review

“The Last Train from Hiroshima” by Henry Holt is what this article is talking about. They say it claims to reveal a secret accident with the atom bomb that killed one American and irradiated others and greatly reduced the weapon’s destructive power.  I want to know where they got that information. other than that................... i think i don't want to know anything else. if your interested, then i hope you read that book. (and don't tell me about it 'cuz it's things like that that put me to sleep. i'm not big in real life can't ya tell?)

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Officials See Slander in Uzbekistan
by: Ellen Barry
Article was published: February 10, 2010

photo of an Uzbekistan boy was among those by Umida Akhmedova that prosecutors said intentionally showed village life in an unflattering light.

MY REVIEW

I found that government officials in the boy's own country said the picture was depressing. That striked to me as odd. Does the government not know that there country is getting help from other countries? If they do, then why do they want foreigners, like us, to think that they are ok? That people die of hunger every day and they are the ones who can decrease the starvation rate? The government can also build homeless shelters so citizens who have nothing can at least have a place to sleep.

Some other things I found worth while to share with you are the following: by showing people with sour expressions or bowed heads, children in ragged clothing, old people begging for change or other images so dreary that, (according to a panel of experts convened by the prosecutors) a foreigner unfamiliar with Uzbekistan will conclude that this is a country where people live in the middle ages. Now i don't know about you, but i don't think thats fair.

yitta schwartz

God said multiply, and did she ever

By: Joseph Berger

Published: February 19, 2010

The casket of Yitta Schwartz after her death last month at age 93 in Kiryas Joel, N.Y. she left perhaps 2,000 descendants. (15 children, more than 200 grandchildren, and so many great- and great- great- grandchildren that, by her family’s count, she could claim 2,000 living descendants.)

My review

First of all, how old was she when started having kids if she has great- great- grandkids? Let’s see, if was 93 when she died………… then (and this is just math and guessing so it might not be right) Yitta would have to be maybe 12 or 13. But from reading on I have found that Yitta’s oldest child is a 75-year-old daughter and her youngest is a great- great- grandchild who was born on February 15. Second of all, the article said she was a survivor of the holocaust! In reading this article about a dead girl, I have found respect for Yitta. Yitta is a member of the Satmar Hasidic sect and she stood by to her religion very closely.

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I have recently  become very curious about whats happing in Japan. I have heard some really crazy things like when Japan had that earthquake it knocked the earth off its axis an inch................. or something like that. I also heard that Japan won't help America anymore. (what I mean by that is Japan won't give us things like paper or toys.) so I went online to The New York Times to find out the truth. It said nothing about earth being knocked off it's axis, but it did say that 11,600 people are officially dead and more than 16,000 are listed as missing. The New York Times also said that Japan estimates that the final toll for the dead should be around 20,000, and more than 190,000 remain in temporary housing. I also found out that Japan will still export/import to the U.S. so we don't have to worry about that. I feel really sad for the people in Japan. They first had a 9.0 (according to the Richter scale) earthquake, then they had a huge tsunami, and after that was over, they found out that a nuclear power plant had leaked. So now the Japanese people have radiation to worry about besides how to feed 190,000 + people.

 Japan's earthquake was recorded to be the biggest earthquake in the world. Also according to The New York Times Japan has the whole world helping them in their time of need. But, like all happy story's, this story has a sad point. The radiation expanded to 25 miles from the  Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Japan is thinking of expanding the evacuation zone and whether the island needs to be abandoned. (I think this sounds reasonable, right?)
I feel really bad for Japan and now that I know what is going on, I feel like it's just the end of the world for Japan. The Red Cross, The Church of Jesus Christ, America, Europe, and the rest of Asia are some of the people who are helping poor Japan. So at least their getting some help while they are in this crisis.
last year, my family & i did this emergency prepareness thing. we had to pretend that we had been hit by a huge earthquake and that the power went out and the tap water was not safe to drink. we had to use our food storage and our water storage. it only lasted for a week, but i kinda know what Japan whent through.