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Friday, March 25, 2011
PAGE 6 A woman pushes a wheelbarrow as she cleans her house in Motoyoshi town, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, March 23, 2011.
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Radiation scare sparks run on bottled water in Tokyo
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TOKYO – Stores in Tokyo were running out of bottled water on Thursday after radiation from a damaged nuclear complex briefly made tap water unsafe for babies, while more nations curbed imports of Japanese food.
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Engineers are trying to stabilize a six-reactor nuclear plant in Fukushima, 250 km (150 miles) north of the capital, nearly two weeks after
an earthquake and tsunami battered the plant and devastated northeastern Japan, leaving nearly 26,000 people dead or missing.
Tokyo’s 13 million residents were told not to give tap water to babies under 1 year old after contamination hit twice the safety level this week. But it dropped back to allowable amounts on Thursday. Despite government appeals against panic, many supermarkets and stores sold out of bottled water. “Customers ask us for water. But there’s nothing we can do,” said
Masayoshi Kasahara, a store clerk at a supermarket in a residential area of eastern Tokyo. “We are asking for more deliveries but we don’t know when the next shipment will come.” Radiation above safety levels has also been found in milk and vegetables from Fukushima, where the stricken nuclear plant is located on the Pacific coast. Continued on page 6
Quintessential star Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 ELIZABETH Taylor, screen goddess, was born in 1951’s “A Place in the Sun,” when she cooed into Montgomery Clift’s ear, “You’ll be my pickup.” Taylor had been a child and teenage star, but “A Place in the Sun” was the first head-on look at her mature, raven-haired, violeteyed beauty. It would be captured again, if fleetingly, in the sultry “BUtterfield 8,” the sweltering “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and the fitting “Cleopatra,” surely her historical counterpart. Her searing screen presence astonished a moviegoing public. It was a ravishing, glamorous glow
that no amount of blockbuster failures or tabloid escapades could dim — and in her 79 years, there were plenty of both. As news of her death Wednesday spread, it was clear how many were still entranced. Fellow stars, fans and heads of state were nearly as helpless as Clift’s George Eastman. Her former husband, former Sen. John W. Warner recalled her “classic face and majestic eyes.” Joan Collins remembered Taylor as “the last of the true Hollywood icons.” Elton John said she embodied “the very essence of glamorous movie stardom.” Taylor died early Wednesday of congestive heart failure, said
her publicist Sally Morrison. She was surrounded by her four children at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks. Film critic Vincent Camby once wrote that Taylor “represents the complete movie phenomenon — what movies are as an art and an industry and what they have meant to us who have grown up watching them in the dark.” She may have been the quintessential movie star, but Taylor’s life was far messier than her on-screen icon. As flawless as she was in celluloid, she was utterly human off-screen. Continued on page 6
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Elizabeth Taylor